Japanese Sculpture Garden at Fredrick Meijer Garden Dec. 11th, 2015

Japanese Sculpture Garden at Fredrick Meijer 

Garden Dec. 11th, 2015

We made it back to the Fredrick Meijer Sculpture Garden, and this time spent as much time outside as we did inside.  They opened a new exhibit; called The Japanese Sculpture Garden that we hadn't walked through yet.  The weather being so warm; we decided this was the perfect day to wander around.

 

The "Japanese Garden" had LOTS of rocks, bamboo, evergreen's, waterfalls, moss, and interesting pairings of natural things.  They did a great job making the walking trails very exciting and varied.

The rock is engraved:
Come Out Bat
Birds, Earth Itself
Hauled off by Flowers

Many of the larger rocks had haiku's that were nature based.
 

In this picture you can see the glass buildings that house all the plants and tropical areas we so love.  This is a great picture of the glass buildings.  Remember all the pictures of the butterflies we shared in April---that was from inside these buildings.

This picture shows how they combine so many different types of rocks, granite, limestone, pebbles....etc. all together in such a lovely way.  They did this throughout the exhibit.

This hanging glass sculpture is by Dale Chihuly---he is/was a contemporary to my deceased sculpture teacher, Dale Eldred.  My professor invited Chihuly to visit our school and we got to meet him...  I love seeing his work.

We went through the Christmas tree section again, but I didn't want to show all the same types of pictures again, but couldn't leave out this one pic.

There are sculptures all around the place--I try to include a new one in my posts as I go along.  I don't think I've shared the picture of this Lipchitz yet:

There was a pottery gallery of  Asian ceramists on exhibit--we enjoyed seeing all their works, and are sharing a few of our favorites.

I always love seeing tea sets!

The following two are pictures of the same piece--one of the inside, and one of the outside.  

We just loved seeing ALL the sparrows & finches swarming around these feeders!

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