I should have gone to the lunch hour seminar. They were feeding us for free, and right now my budget could have used the break. But, as usual, I followed my heart, snuck a sandwich off the caterer's cart for later, and headed to the Japanese Tea Garden at the public park in town.
Just inside the gate was the Tea House where they will occaisionally have tea ceremonies.
I think this is a lotus flower, I could be wrong. They had several floating clusters of these, but this was the only one with a visible blossom.
The standard pagoda, this was the larger of two or three that they had there. There were 3 little girls about 2 years old playing at the base of this one.
Also the arched bridge over the pond. There were a bunch of koi, but you can't see them from this angle.
A pretty little waterfall and a bench across from it to sit on.
And then it was time to get back to work, so I saw this through the gate on the way out. Totally cool place, free except for the cost of parking, I may go there now and then to just unwind on stressful days. You can follow the link from any of these pictures to my flickr account to see the rest of the pictures I took. I can't believe there were just under 50 that I snapped in such a short time.
Thanks for sharing my visit to the garden.
