Monthly Archives: June 2023

Taking Time to Look Back

‘Lovers”
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

I was organizing some of my old photos and came across this image from the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. It brought bank wonderful memories of a couple of the adventures we took when we lived back in the Philadelphia area. The Grounds for Sculpture is a fantastic park with sculptures ranging from fantasy to reality, from abstract to giant accurate images or real people, and everything in between. In the 17 years I lived in Pennsylvania, I only made it to the Grounds of Sculpture twice. Each time I visited, I vowed to come back again and again. We even bought annual passes two times. What a missed opportunity!

This abstract was one of my favorites of two lovers enjoying the presence of each other in a beautiful setting of nature. I will go back!!!

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Early Morning Standout

Backlit Cork Tree
Heatherwood Spring

Our young cork tree stands out as the early morning sun backlights its light green leaves. The cork tree is one of our more recent additions to the Japanese section of our garden. We are gradually adding taller-growing trees which will eventually add shade to the Japanese garden. Even though it is now only about ten feet tall, it is already adding interest to the garden. Someday it will grow to 30-40 feet tall and gracefully spread shade through the garden.

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Rocks With a Message

“Path to Never Ending Search of Knowledge”
Heatherwood Japanese Garden

When we first started designing the layout of Heatherwood’s Japanese Inspired Garden, I identified three stone designs that I wanted to include to depict important inspirations in my life. The stone pattern in the center of above image is meant to depict a pathway to a never ending search of learning. The bottom stone represents the “seeker”. The four rocks above the seeker curve upward creating a path to acquire knowledge. When reaching the top stone, the seeker can look upward to a tall bluff full of geologic history.

I see every day as an opportunity to discover and learn something new. It may be an element of nature, a new face, a new idea. It can come from an external source or from an internal reflection. As seen above, there is a well worn path alongside the rocks. My legs are not long enough to hop from one to another.

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It Is Good to Be Back !

“Goldilocks Japanese White Pine”
Heatherwood Spring

We had a great two week vacation floating down the Danube River, but it still feels good to be back home enjoying our Heatherwood garden. While we were gone, it seems like everything grew about a foot or so. This Pinus parviflora ‘Goldilocks’ sprouted out its new growth in brilliant yellow. The new growth stays yellow throughout the year until late winter when it starts to darken up. Then again in the spring it spurts out its brilliant yellow new growth.

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