Skip to main content

Japanese Garden Cowra


Last year I explained about the Japanese POW camp in Cowra but as we passed through on Christmas Day I could not show the Japanese Garden.
Having braved blistering 41C heat to get these shots I'm not going to stop at one image of this beautiful garden so there are more below. In case you are wondering, clipping all those smooth shapes keeps three gardeners busy.

Labels:

Comments

  1. MartinaJanuary 4, 2010 at 8:19 AM

    Japanese gardens are an astonishing thing - on one hand I do not think I would like my backyard to be one but on the other hand they are so soothing to the eye and the mind, really wonderful.

    ReplyDelete
  2. WinamJanuary 4, 2010 at 9:16 AM

    I love Japanese gardens. Saw my fair share on my trip to Japan, but this one looks very well done.

    Did you see the Poetry Slam program on ABC, Joan? It was in Cowra last week. Very touching it was too.

    ReplyDelete
  3. freefallingJanuary 4, 2010 at 11:26 AM

    Oh - I've been there!
    I remember the Koi with the see-through heads - you could see their brains.

    ReplyDelete
  4. myletterstoemilyJanuary 4, 2010 at 3:50 PM

    stunning photos!

    just in case you are interested, while you are burning up 'down there', we are freezing up here!! :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Joan ElizabethJanuary 4, 2010 at 9:08 PM

    Martina, I love Japanese gardens too but prefer the ones that are on a smaller scale.

    Winam, yes I saw the poetry slam, a good show, made all the more interesting from having been there recently.

    Letty, saw the koi but not the brains!

    Lea, I am glad to say it never gets as freezing here as it does in the northern hemisphere.

    ReplyDelete
  6. JulieJanuary 5, 2010 at 7:25 AM

    A gorgeous collection of images, Joan. I am of the mind that a collection of detail serves to convey more information that a full landscape. I would like to go out that way when the hot air balloons go up. Must check out when that is. Canowindra if I recall correctly.

    ReplyDelete
  7. PJJanuary 5, 2010 at 5:29 PM

    How lovely it is, especially the Zen garden. I can't imagine what it takes to keep is perfectly clean and the lines just so. I've tried doing it with sand and a small bamboo rake. Very difficult.

    ReplyDelete
  8. UnknownJanuary 6, 2010 at 6:35 AM

    These are so beautiful both first image and collage! The 'dwarf pine trees'(?) behind the little pagoda are amazing!

    ReplyDelete
  9. ABJanuary 7, 2010 at 7:48 PM

    Japanese gardens are beautiful. This collage captures the beauty perfectly

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The end

I retire from the workforce this week and to celebrate have decided to retire my current blogs and start afresh with a single consolidated blog -  My Bright Field  - to record the delights of my new life adventure. If you are interested follow me over there.  I will still be Sweet Wayfaring and collecting Royal Hotels.  The delights I discover along the way will appear together with my gardens and towns where I live.
Post a Comment
Read more

Larras Lee

We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything.  Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this.  The roadside monument says: In Memory of  WILLIAM LEE  (1794 - 1870)  of "Larras Lake"  a pioneer of the sheep  and cattle industry  and first member for  Roxburgh under responsible  government (1856 - 1859).  This stone was erected  by his descendants.  --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an increase in his land to 300 acres. William developed a r
9 comments
Read more

Coolibah?

Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
13 comments
Read more