BLOG SHOTS #146

I call this series – BLOG SHOTS.  It has been going on now for many years and I will say, having hundreds of photos that have never been posted, it should continue for many years to come.  If you want more from the gardens here, just go back though the many posting from the last years as found in the archives of this Blog.

 

Each posting has a random number of photos that have never before been seen on this Blog.  I have so many photos that have been taken over the last ten plus years that I figure this is one way of finally showing some of the many I have collected from the Gardens at Waters East.

 

Do Enjoy

A December morning
 

Bee on False Sunflower

July

Anemone

June

Daylily #path

July

Two butterflies

August

White Spire - January

early sunshine

Balloon Flower

August

Ghost Spider

July

Aster

October

Bees on Coneflower

October

Visit to Nelson Dewey State Park on the Mississippi River

Nelson Dewey State Park is named after Wisconsin’s first governor.  It sits high up on a bluff area of the Mississippi River in southern Wisconsin with a number of overlooks for viewing the river. There are over eight miles of hiking trails and a number of Native American Indian Burial Mounds.

River barge in the distance going up the Mississippi River

 

 

The following is taken from the Dept of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources:

 

“Long before prospectors discovered lead in southwestern Wisconsin, and Marquette and Juliet canoed the Wisconsin River, Native Americans hunted the valleys and ridges, fished the Mississippi River and raised food near their village in the shadow of the bluffs. Remains of these occupations hold clues to the lifestyles and activities of the people who lived here so long ago.

Three groups of burial mounds and two village sites have been found within the boundaries of Nelson Dewey State Park. Artifacts from the villages indicate that this area was inhabited as early as 7,000 years ago, and the oldest burial mounds in the park may be more than 2,000 years old. Most of the mounds appear to have been built between A.D. 500 and 900.”

 

Do Enjoy the views

This is a knot I found on a tree while hiking one of the many trails - interesting!

This tree is said to be 1,200 years old.  Growing out of the rock cliff

  

Joy & Sign of Hope #7

 I am calling this series – Joy & Signs of Hope.

 

There are not many uplifting things in the news these days, so I decided to do a little more posting on the blog.  Seeing things of beauty can bring a little joy to all of us at this time.  So, in addition to the many regular postings here, over the next months I will do my part to brighten up your day with many recent photos taken of the beauty that lives here all year, Spring through Winter in the Gardens at Waters East.

I am calling these special postings – Joy & Signs of Hope.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Tree Bark - - Interesting

Over the last few months, I have taken a number of walks down area paths and trails.  In time I started to look even more closely than normal at the trees along the way.  There are so many textures of bark on trees, fascinating.  I wonder why the trees have developed their particular forms of the bark.  What is the reason for all the variations? Do you know the names of the trees in this post?

 

Here are a few, there will be many more in the months ahead.

 

Do enjoy the walk.

 

 Beginning the walk along a path.

This bark is most interesting to me.

The walk will continue in a few weeks,

more trees to experience!

Review of Gardens at Waters East 2021

Doing a review of this past year (2021) became a more difficult task than I thought it would be.  There are literally hundreds and hundreds of photos taken at the Gardens at Waters East this past year so I thought it would be easy to choose photos for this posting – NOT!  There are so many that I decided to post a mixture of different kinds of subjects to show some of the interest I find here in the gardens.

 

Do enjoy - - -  especially the bugs!

 

Everyday the sunrises bring me lots of joy.

Love photos of clouds.

One of the more than 400 different day lilies

 that have been hybridized at the

Gardens at Waters East

a resident

the last blooming flower of the year

Native Cup Flower

a November sunrise with a ship passing on the horizon