DETAILS OF AN ELEGANT GARDEN

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This is a side of China carefully constructed by the designers,

 not long ago, of the Huntington Library in Pasadena.. 

This side of the Chinese culture, that reminds me of the American. 

They like to go all out. They marvel at anything big.

These are not the details of a typical street scenes 
of China where I walked, 

(except for some parts of the big cities,)

but nonetheless, here you can see 
they have a keen eye for beauty. 

Two liondogs as they call them, guard the entrance 

of the Chinese Garden .
They look intimidating enough:) 

On both sides of the entrance these bushes

with beautiful white flowers in almost round clusters

This has something of a gazebo. The vertical rows of roof tiles 

attracted my attention. Wish I could read Chinese. 

That was my only complaint on our trip in mainland China.

My blogfriend Judy Sheldon Walker -isn't she awesome?-
asked her friend -the sign says, "A Rest house for 3 friends"! 

The colors in this garden were overall subtle 

or neutral, except for the waterlilies.

This wall of wooden panels shows off  Chinese artwork
with each a different scene.

You can see on the left that it has a roof, but is outside
Isn't it beautiful?

Linking to

Alphabe -K  This or That   Floral Friday Foto  Green Day  Orange Friday 

Sky Watch
Weekend Reflection
NF Water 
Mandarin Orange Monday
Our World
ABC -D 

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