Saturday, December 9, 2023

BLOG SHOTS #159

 Each month Gardens at Waters East (GAWE) will post a few never before seen photos of “garden life” called - - BLOG SHOTS.

 Here are the photos for this posting.

 

False Sunflower

moments in the garden

looking back at recent summers - - enjoy


Phlox


A storm coming


sunrise over Lake Michigan

at the gardens


interesting shadow
 
Spirea Fritsch


Siberian Iris


Monarch Butterflies

on their annual stop-over here in the gardens

on their way to Mexico


Goat's Beard


Ghost Spider

on Orange Tithonia

Mexican Torch


Delphinium


 

 

 

 

Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Design plus the special “Golden Principle of Design” used throughout Gardens at Waters East, check out the archive postings for November 14 – 24, 2010 and May 2, 2011.

 

 

NOTE:   All photos use in this posting were taken on the property of Gardens at Waters East

unless otherwise marked.

NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;

no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.

What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

 

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Hunting Season - it is NOW

This week is gun deer hunting week in Wisconsin.  The hunting season has a long history here, for many people it is a family tradition.   There are more than 600,000 hunters in the woods and forest around this stare this week for the nine-day hunting season.

Lots of deer and lots of hunters.


HUMM - Looking in my office window while I am looking out! 

 

I will say – I don’t have to go far to find them.  Just looking out my windows – there they are!

 

At all times of the year


All photos taken on the property of 
Gardens at Waters East

Some little one is hungry!



Hiding on the edge of a garden path



The garden files here are loaded with pictures of deer “being at home” in

The Gardens at Waters East.

 

 

Footprints of deer on StoneWater Beach
at the Gardens at Waters East

 


Enjoying a "snack" from the Formal Garden.
Photo taken through the Sunroom window.


This Buck knows he is being hunted!

 

This photo was an accident - wrong setting.

Yet I like it.

My "ghost" deer in the garden.

Sunday, October 29, 2023

THE END IS. NEAR !!!!!

This past weekend took a number of photos of the Autumn colors in the garden and in the nearby area.  The colors were some of the best that I have seen in many years.  Stopped at an apple orchard and mentioned that observation to the owner who has lived in the area for many years and she mentioned the same thing. “More colors and for a longer duration than has happened in years.”  Nice to know that I wasn’t the only one that thought it is a special year for Autumn colors here.


Do enjoy some of the photos from this week.  Because I used a cellphone and that is not the best camera, keep in mind that photos do not show total reality since they have about 15 percent less accuracy and clarity than the human eye. Even with that, the colors here now are pretty fantastic.


 


View from the Asian Patio

in The Gardens at Waters East

before leaving on the day-trip looking for colors.

 

Lets start from Gardens at Waters East

then move on down the roads to the surrounding countryside.



The private drive into the Gardens at Waters East 

 


View across from the entry drive to Gardens at Waters East


on a country road


on another road near the gardens


one of the streets in the town


another country road


a park in the county near the gardens


view overlooking a valley


like the form of the branches

a tree near the gardens

 

another view of a farm on a county road


on a side road


softer colors on a country road

now -- which way?


distant view in the country


even at the cemetery colors are beautiful


sun touching a distant woods


many colors on a wooded mound


old barn

 

 Getting back to the area near the gardens.

 


Trees along the drive into Gardens at Waters East


 

Ending back for the evening in the Asian Patio

for an Autumn final view on a foggy early evening.

 


Hoping you enjoyed some of the photos from this week.  Because I used a cellphone and that is not the best camera, keep in mind that photos do not show total reality since they have about 15 percent less accuracy and clarity than the human eye. Even with that, the colors here now are pretty fantastic.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

THE GARDEN DOOR


Recently visited an excellent little garden located at the University of Wisconsin Peninsula Agricultural Research Station in Door County Wisconsin. I encourage anyone visiting the area to take the time to check it out.  Got so many more ideas for my home garden. Really a little gem of a garden!



 

Fifteen different gardens

 

 


the pond



part of the catus garden






one of the sedum gardens


decorative tower of sedum



Recipient of Trip Advisor’s - - Certificate of Excellence

 

  

Check it out on one of many web sites. Here are a couple of them. 

The Garden Door,     

The Park Next Door,

Door County Master Gardeners Association