Artistic rocks

[spiderplanet]

 This morning I went for an "until I find something interesting" walk.  This neighborhood rock garden qualifies.  There's a lot going on here.  



Picture is of a busy rock garden in a front yard.  There are dozens of hand painted rocks, balanced rocks, outdoor tchotchkes and careful arrangements.  

Comments

[pameladean]

Oh, that's really great. I don't really get the aesthetic, but from a perspective of "sit down and just look at all this one bit at a time" it's very successful. Somebody must have had a lot of fun putting it together.

P.

[spiderplanet]

I completely agree!

I really wanted to examine this closely, and sit down and think with it. I decided not to because it would be weird if the occupant came outside and saw some strange woman in their yard, staring intently at their rock garden. It's on display for everyone to see, but it's still in a private yard. I just don't know the etiquette on that.

[pameladean]

I don't know the etiquette either. On my regular walk there's a yard in which the occupiers have built a double artificial waterfall full of artfully placed rocks and lots of native plants. Both sides of the waterfall empty into a patch of gravel next to the sidewalk (presumably to be pumped back up again by an underground mechanism) and to one side of this patch there is a little marble bench. I've never sat on it to admire the moving water, because even though it's right by the sidewalk I don't know if it's an invitation or not.

I was thinking that if I had a rock garden like that I'd put a bench where one could sit and contemplate it; but if it wasn't my garden I'm still not sure I'd think of it as an invitation to random strangers to sit down.

P.