Garden of Three Friends: Kasuga Lantern, Ground Holly, Aged Master.
I love Japanese Gardens with their un-busy look. Americans make a garden and say, "Oh, look, a space. What can I put in there?" The Japanese make a garden and say, "What else can I take out? For their gardens the Japanese use stones, shrubs,and water, if possible. No flowers. They try to capture the feel of a landscape, the serenity of simplicity, the peace of seclusion. It's been said that the Japanese can make a garden out of two stones. I tried it once and liked it enough to bring to Atlanta. Sad to say, my birthday gift stone was too heavy to dig up. But I did get another going away gift-stone and brought that one.
The Greene brothers, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright, were influenced by Japanese aesthetics, and reflections of it can be seen throughout their houses.
niiice! you give it that name?
ReplyDeletehow is it you found all these interesting things ... did you have a self-guide book? did you just wander up and down all the streets on foot? Jg
We had an hour to wait before our tour of the Gamble House, and we did, in fact, have a self-guided walking tour of the neighborhood. But we didn't use it much. It told of the owners and the histories of the Greene and Greene houses in the neighborhood. But we didn't have enough time to stop and read all the stuff. I was too busy taking pictures to stop and read. All we know for certain is that the closest Green and Greene house to the Gambles is now a church with the "Hate Free Zone."
ReplyDeleteI found a lot of the "interesting things" when I downloaded the camera. I shoot at whatever strikes me, by the hundreds. There's gotta be something good in there. Good compositions are already there if you can see them. It's a lot easier after the fact, on the computer, with the crop tool. Most of those "interesting parts" were found in the putting it all together for this kind of e-mail series. That's why I like doing it.