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Great Garden: Portland Japanese Garden

Posted: December 13, 2018

This series of posts are about entertainment that I recommend when people ask me for recommendations. It also includes place-specific “entertainment”, such as beautiful gardens; it might be stretching the definition of entertainment, but I enjoy myself in the places I recommend.

They are not universal recommendations. I wouldn’t recommend a dark thriller to someone looking for something nice and happy; I’d recommend a romance.

They aren’t perfect or without mistakes.

Art is never finished, only abandoned. ~ Leonard da Vinci

Portland Japanese Garden

I’ve been fortunate enough to visit Portland Japanese Garden twice.

I still remember the first time.

The feeling I get is like being able to suddenly breathe very deeply. Like there is space in my chest for endless breath and with that feeling comes relaxation.

The second time I visited (May, 2018) I saw the new entrance they’d added and the culture village (as they call it).

They had a bonsai exhibition. Miniature trees that look like full grown ones. I’ve seen some amazing ones, and one of them looked like a small forest (pictured to the right).

The main garden area is divided into several different types of Japanese gardens. The most famous type of Japanese garden being the zen garden with raked gravel and rocks; Portland Japanese Garden has one of those with beautiful Japanese style historical walls closing it off from the rest of the garden and the outside.

Personally I love the wandering type of garden best. It often have a river, perhaps a waterfall; or it has the simulation of those things with pebbles. Wooden bridges to cross the water filled with colorful koi fish.

Mostly Japanese gardens are 50 shades of green. That is what I love.

Water, green shades, and some small human made details, come together to calm and refresh me.

It is also a good place to write poetry, and I’ve written some at Portland Japanese Garden, as well as in other gardens.

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Picture of the Month — April 2018

Posted: April 1, 2018

Pretty coast Oregon USA 2015
What is better than the sound of waves?

I am currently at the Oregon coast in the USA and I’m enjoying the beach on sunny days and on rainy days. I like rain. This picture was taken back in 2015 when I visited this area for the first time.

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Picture of the Month — June 2015

Posted: June 1, 2015

I guess an explanation is in order?

I’m starting up a monthly post for my site. The first of every month I’ll post a picture I took. Sometimes it’ll be a picture I took that day or a few days before, other times it might be a picture taken years before. Now, on to the picture:

Historic Anchor Inn Lincoln City Oregon USA 2015
Did you get lucky at the Anchor Inn?

This picture is taken in the front yard of the Historic Anchor Inn in Lincoln City, Oregon, USA. Taken in late February, 2015, when I visited the inn for the first time.

The inn is a fantastically homy place that is shock full of items—pictures, surf boards, mirrors, tchotchkes, and all manner of other things. One of the items is displayed above. The owners are super friendly and takes good care of you (Hi, Kip and Kandi!). I stayed there for a month, and then another week this spring when I spent two months in the USA.

I already know I’ll be back this fall. Perhaps I’ll take another picture then! 😉

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