Mid-winter’s silver flows over rocks, under ice; gravity-compelled, defying temperature, waterfall tinkles in snow. It is in the 80’s here in MI. Looking for pictures of waterfalls, I came across the photo taken mid-winter and thought oh my, wouldn’t it be nice to cool off there right now. It is mid-winter in the Southern…
Category: Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park — part 3 of 3 — inside gardens
Please note: I’ve changed the settings with this group of photos, where you can click the image link below each one and open it full size in a new window. There are different climate gardens at Meijer Gardens. The arid garden has many types of cacti and other desert plants. This one caught my eye…
Meijer Gardens in Winter — part 2 of 3 — exhibit
The following pictures are of parts of an exhibit at Meijer Gardens called, “The Womb,” created by Rebecca Louise Law. The exhibit is pretty sparse with clinical-like representations of how big the fetus is and how it grows over time. There is another case that shows how the placenta grows over time, which was new…
Winter at Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park — Part 1 of 3 — outside
You may have been wondering where I was today. Instead of signing in, I brewed a pot of coffee, took a quick bath, then headed over to Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids. Younger son and his wife bought me a membership for Christmas. I chose today to go for a few reasons. One is I’M…
This, That, and the Other
The training on Human Trafficking that I went to yesterday was wonderfully held at Meijer Gardens During the lunch break and after the training ended, there was time to snap a few pictures. wild oats clown, balancing circus dog. The dog looks a lot like my now-passed-away Chaun. frog under sycamore Wardian Case, Meijer…
Happy Fishes
image link I’ve been a student of philosophical taoism/daoism for several years now. Two of the main texts studied are The Tao Te Ching/Dao De Jing and the Chuang Tzu/Zhuang Zi. The Dao De Jing (DDJ)’s main speaker is an old guy named Lao Tzu/Lao Zi, and the Zhuang Zi (ZZ)’s main character in the…
Dahlias!
I’ve been going to Meijer Gardens since it was first created many moons ago in Grand Rapids, MI. It continues to grow and has sculpture all over the place, both inside and out on the grounds. Recently Ai WeiWei had an exhibit there, and he left behind a permanent installation called Iron Tree. I fell…
Tao Talk 