This pathway of cherry trees is near the entrance.
There is also a walkway of them in the Japanese Gardens.
Tuesdays are the days I drive to Grand Rapids to meet up with younger son and his family. This past Tuesday they got held up by a work conference call, so I had a chance to walk around a garden space we usually don’t go to. Last summer when we went to that part the water features were shut down. Also last spring I totally missed the cherry blossoms. Not this year on either.
Also in this perennial walkway is another water fountain with sculptures.
There weren’t a huge # of perennials going strong, but I did find these beauties. The foliage is below them in the picture.
Tao Talk 
It’s so nice you can get together with your family for a nice visit. The cherry blossoms are lovely, and that flat water feature is mesmerizing! Very cool. :)
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So glad you enjoyed the videos, Barbara. Yes, it is a blessing to spend time with them, now that Covid is manageable and the baby is older. <3
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I love that walkway….that is really cool with those trees. Also…I have a fondness for water fountains. Those both look cool.
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Glad you enjoyed seeing them. They have some constructed waterfalls in the park also. We walked back to the waterfall that has a koi pond on Tuesday (didn’t take videos but will one of these times) and granddaughter was enthralled with the fish.
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I have a soft spot for waterfalls. As a kid I was watching a baseball game on television… and they were at the Kansas City Royals stadium…they have a waterfall in centerfield beyond the fence of course….that got me into waterfalls.
I love Koi ponds as well!
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What a cool memory, Max. Baby gave the koi some really small pieces of cheetos (it’s all we had) so she could watch them eat, but not really healthy for them. I found koi food at my local grocery store, how cool is that? It’s in the trunk, so next time they will get real koi food.
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I never realized they made koi food but hey…they have to eat lol.
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How lovely. Love the sights.
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Thanks so much, Selma!
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It all looks very tranquil
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Glyn that part of it is. Not sure why many don’t walk through that part (can’t find the entrance to it?) Other parts are less so (the parts where the many many young’ns go.) They have kids areas that get quite noisy.
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Beautiful pictures and footage. FMG looks like a great place to visit! :-)
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I’d love to set up a cot in a corner and live there.
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That’s a beautiful pool, very meditative. Your cherry trees are a bit behind ours, which are raining petals on the ground. You have to catch them when you can. (K)
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Yes it is and the sound of water is so relaxing. Last week when we walked to the Japanese garden they hadn’t started but these were in full bloom. They must be different varieties growing here. Raining cherry petals is happy and sad at the same time.
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Ephemeral.
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That place is more like a church to me than anything.
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Lovely, soothing videos Li. Thanks for sharing
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You’re most welcome, Sadje.
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🙏🏼💕
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Looks like a wonderful place to wander and linger, Lisa. What does FMG stand for?
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Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
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Looks like it’s a day well spent kind of place. Nice.
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I’ve been meeting up there with family every week. It’s like going to church :)
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I know just what you mean. Winnipeg’s new conservatory The Leaf and its gardens are like that, as are many parklands I visit. There’s nothing like nature to bring you in touch with what matters.
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<3 :) Glad you have a new conservatory near you, how wonderful.
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It’s truly gorgeous, and quite a unique structure; look up “The Leaf Winnipeg” if you’re curious. We take our youngest grandson there every week and he calls the place “nana” because of the banana tree with its miniature bananas in the tropical biome.
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Looks wonderful. Is it built on Anishanabe land? I like the idea of you and Sweety taking your grandchild there, walking with him through it it like I do with my granddaughter through fmg :)
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It’s a magical place to share together and yes it, like all of our city, was established on traditional lands of Anishinaabe, Ininew, and Dakota peoples and the national homeland of the Red River Métis. Most institutions here have adopted similar land acknowledgments. Is that done in the US?
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Sorry for the misspelling on the Anishinaabe name. No, we don’t do it (yet) but Michigan is part of their territory also along with other tribes in other areas. I know there is the Little Traverse Bay Band north of here also. I do see some progress made in at least acknowledging the harms that were done with the boarding schools among other atrocities.
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I see there are different spellings used…from Wikipedia: “Anishinaabe (alternatively spelled Anishinabe, Anicinape, Nishnaabe, Neshnabé, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek, Aanishnaabe).” It would be interesting to learn what accounts for the different spellings.
It is good that there is progress, however slow, and on both sides of the border.
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Steve the reason why I asked is the website address when I searched for the park, which took me to:
https://www.assiniboinepark.ca/leaf/lifegrows
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Oh, yes. Most Canadian institutions do some form of land acknowledgment. Locally that started in 2015 under a former mayor after a national magazine labelled ours the most racist city in the country. This act was/is part of efforts at reconciliation (which I think is roughly an equivalent to reparations in the US).
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This looks and sounds like a wonderful place to visit with family members, Lisa. I can see why you refer to it as like going to church. It feels like a very spiritual location indeed.
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:)
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