It’s a beautiful time of the year at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (affectionately known as fmg.) Granddaughter has been more interested in the play area with the raised runways and winding paths as there are always kids there that can run together, play hide and seek, etc. This week, though, she said yes…
Category: Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — Golden Tuesdays with Family
Golden Tuesdays With FamilyFresh-washed, gleamed white against dull-greystraight, flat, dotted highway pencil draws me.New-tired beast jockeys familiar lanes with fasttravelers in myriad shapes with myriad hues.Crotch rocket riders zip between, daredevils with red death wishes. Blue Amazon dinosaursblock and slow flow. Orange construction conesbrake late summer five o’clock urgency to home.Iron arches and sandstone brick…
FFF 51 — fmg and Monet garden
Everything is still blooming beautifully here and there in Michigan. On Tuesday we met up at fmg. On Wednesday I met up downtown with a friend and took a drive by the Monet Garden afterwards and nabbed a few pics. Still having fish food in the car for the fmg koi, I grabbed a handful…
FFF 50 — fmg in bloom
The weather was quite pleasant at fmg on Tuesday. Everything is so vibrant. We ran into one of my granddaughter’s little friends from library storytime so most of our time was near the treehouse type play area that also has a sand play area where kids can find fossils and a good-sized meteorite (a couple…
Dawn Redwood at fmg
Anybody who has read my blog for any length of time has heard me go on and on about the gardens and feeding the koi at the waterfall pond. Last Tuesday I realized the whole area around the pond has a stand of dawn redwood trees. How could I have failed to see them before?…
(repost) Friday Favorite Feature 43 — Doodads and Notice of Hiatus
Everyone who reads my blog regularly knows I’ve been going strong since March with Women Music March 2025 and A2Z 2025. The weather is getting nice and there are things that need to get done out in the yard. The bike needs to get out on the roads and bike paths. I’ve got some writing…
dVerse — OLN — poeming through the gardens
Imagine you’re in Chinaand that it’s real bamboothe panda bear is smilingand posing just for you. The hyacinth are bloomingclumped in their special potsgone before the bees wakefragrance calls just us. Naked Miss Wisteriais missing her new dressancient crone stands with helpof iron-caned trellis. Peter’s fond of cabbagealas he breaks his teethSilly…
Tao Talk 