Welcome to Day 18 of 31 Days of A Sense of Place. Sundays are devoted to field trips, relaxing time spent in one spot so we can visually take in its singular sense of place.
Today, it’s Bedrock Gardens in Lee, NH! I’ve posted photos before of this sculpture garden — “an oasis of art, horticulture, and inspiration” — but the pics that follow were taken just last weekend, the last open garden weekend of the season at this private whimsical showcase. Their website mottos include “Take a journey,” “Beauty in details,” and “The more you look, the more you see;” and a walk through the gardens is a journey of discovery and delight in small elements and positioning: juxtapositions of plants, amusing and unexpected sculpture materials, sculptures in surprising places (see the head in the Wiggle Waggle), intentional and ad-hoc pairings and contrasts.
If you get a chance, visit! (But you have to wait until next May now.)
As always, hovering with your cursor over a photo will show a caption, and clicking on it will show an enlarged, captioned version.
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Kousa dogwood, spruce, yellow maplemetal and needlesfountain‘Squared Off’ sculpture by barnlong viewblue tuteur with greensarborvitae hedge, kale, coleus, statuesParterre Gardentadpoles in parterre garden pondStraight and NarrowFunnel Gardens long viewAutumn crocus prostratebalanced rocks, Swalewayurn and greensgong in sunlightfalse Solomon’s Seal with berriesgem stems in Swalewayventilators in Spiral Gardenspirit housepink flamingos in grassesEyes of God sculptureBaxis with shadowwinterberry and grasses in the Baxiswinterberry hedge in Baxistrunk walking, yellow foliagepath through Dark Woodslight reflector shield – part of Darth Vader sculpturehanging sculpture in Dark Woodswoolly bear by large pondlarge pondsome sort of birch by large pondBidens sp. along large pondTermi top with Heptacodium miconioides (seven sons tree)teahouse, Petit Pondtrio of sculptures by Petit Pondshady trees of Petit Pondheron sculpturefoliage colour, texturefrog by Petit Pondhanging sculpture near Petit PondAsian statue by tea houseAcrobats sculpture by Petit Pondvine growing up Acrobat leghoop sculpture and skycolourful sculpturecones in Conetowncanna lily seed podginkgo leavesginkgo leavesevergreens in Conetownunderneath a cedarWiggle Waggle from Cop Toppotted lilies in Wiggle Waggledried lotus blooms, leaveshead in Wiggle Wagglefall leaves on Wiggle Waggle damin the Garish Gardenflowers in the Garish Gardencastor bean plantorbit-like sculpture in Garish GardenThe Red Thing sculpturegrassesgrassesgrassesAsian pear on the tree. We were handed one each as we walked around: delicious!guinea fowlsilver globe in moss, Rock Gardensprings in barnpartsbaseball bat archbeehiveslots of bees at beehivespotted wintergreen on back pathduckweed and leaves in back pond
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Thanks for checking in. Be sure to see what the other 31 Dayers are writing about.This project is a bit like Wallace Stevens’ poemThirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird, in that I’m writing about a sense of place from vantage points that may not obviously connect with each other. I’m not going to attempt to tie them together. In the end, these 31 days of looking at a sense of place may overlap, contradict, form a whole, or collapse like a flan in a cupboard, as Eddie Izzard would say. That remains to be seen. Thanks for stopping by.
Welcome to Day 18 of 31 Days of A Sense of Place. Sundays are devoted to field trips, relaxing time spent in one spot so we can visually take in its singular sense of place.
This project is a bit like Wallace Stevens’ poem Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird, in that I’m writing about a sense of place from vantage points that may not obviously connect with each other. I’m not going to attempt to tie them together. In the end, these 31 days of looking at a sense of place may overlap, contradict, form a whole, or collapse like a flan in a cupboard, as Eddie Izzard would say. That remains to be seen. Thanks for stopping by.
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