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.

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Bridging the Gap #4 and a not so Wordless Wednesday #9

Today's Wordless Wednesday won't be so wordless due to combining it with another meme.  That one being…

 

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.

These bridge pictures are from the Japanese Garden at Como Zoo in St. Paul, MN.  We stopped there in June on our way home from vacation.   Here is a previous look at this garden on my blog.
 

 

  

 

 

 The lady in the last photo is my mom.  Poor thing got drug around by me while I snapped photos all over the place.  

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Thank you for visiting!

(edited to fix my links)

Wordless Wednesday #7

Japanese Garden located in Como Park, St. Paul, MN
Pictures taken June 2008

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"J" is for....

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.

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