Bridging the Gap #6 and SkyWatch Friday

Bah Humbug…  I had wanted to combine both memes today, but due to unforeseen circumstances I had to use that particular bridge photo earlier this week.  That's what I get for leaving my camera in a car that was traveling 90 miles away for 3 days.  I hate it when goofs are of my own dumb making. (lol)  Oh well, the best laid plans of mice and men, I guess. 

I do have a couple of combination photos that I can use, but it feels a tad like cheating.  Those who have followed my bridges this week will probably figure out why pretty easily.

All photos were taken in July of this year.  

 

Those who were here on Tuesday will recognize that bridge in the background.  Those who were here on Wednesday will recognize the stone bridge as being from a Japanese Garden.  This garden has been featured here before, but not this past week.  

  

 

  

 

This last picture is from underneath the stone bridge.  My camera wasn't quite sitting on the ground, but pretty doggone close.

I have to say that I think Japanese gardens are my favorite style.  I enjoy flower gardens, but there is something amazingly peaceful about a Japanese Garden.  A couple of informative websites are The Japanese Garden and The Japanese Garden Database.  Of course the old standby of Wikipedia is helpful as well.

Bridging The Gap is hosted by Alice over at I Was Born2Cree8 all this week.  Please take a moment to stop by her blog for a visit and to find other participants. 

SkyWatch Friday is hosted by Tom and a couple of his friends (Sandy Carlson and Imac).  Please take a moment to check out some those great photos.

Thank you for visiting.  Please come back :)

Skywatch Friday

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Enjoy more photos from the other participants of SkyWatch Friday.

This is the northeast View overlooking my back yard this (Thurs) evening.

 

  

This is the northwest view overlooking the front yard.

Yep, a storm finally blew into town several hours later.  Unfortunately, it didn't drop much rain.  I'm bummed about that because I didn't water my garden hoping for good soaking.  We have had a wind advisory all day.  I've actually been chasing stuff all over the yard for 3 days now.  Just one of the joys of living on the prairie land that forgot to stop at the North Dakota border.  We are supposedly getting storms pretty much all day tomorrow (Friday) which will hopefully satisfy my garden's thirst and save my water bill.

Now for a little cuteness factor.  These photos were taken in Sertoma Park in Grand Forks, ND.  I often have lunch and snap photos in this lovely park which also hosts a Japanese Garden celebrating it's former sister city of Awano, Japan.  I posted a few pictures of that during Quilly's Alphabet challenge last May.  You can see them here.

 

 

It's a very peaceful park with a coulee running through it. There are several families that nest in this area.  I often have to climb amongst tall grass and stand upon the muddy bank to get photos.  It is definitely one of those times, I wish I had a better camera. 

Thank you for stopping by for a visit.  It is much appreciated. 

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Japanese Garden

Grand Forks, ND at one time had a sister city in Japan. When Awano was annexed into a larger city which ended the relationship. Sertoma Park holds a couple of mementos from that relationship.








I apologize for the blurriness. I had a computer crash and lost several pictures, but found that I had uploaded some to Snapfish. It was too expensive to have them put on cd-rom so I simply saved them to my computer and resized them which accounts for some blurriness. I hope to spend an couple of hours this summer, retaking the pictures.

For more information on sister cities take a look at Sister Cities International. Here is a Wikipedia article on Town Twinning.

I thank all who have stopped by and left comments. I do appreciate it. Be sure to check out Quilldancer to find more participants of the Alphabet project.