Janice and I went on an adventure this week. We drove a couple hours to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and walked and walked and walked. Our first stop was the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, a hundred and fifty-eight acres of luscious plantings and monumental art. I’d been to the conservatory there a number… Continue reading Walking Grand Rapids
Tag: Gardens
Beebalm, Bergamot, Monarda
Gardens are a means of time travel. You only need to be close enough to a garden to smell what’s blooming to know this is so. The scent of lilacs, wafting on a spring breeze, transports me to early childhood. Mom and Dad had planted a row of lilacs and other flowering bushes in… Continue reading Beebalm, Bergamot, Monarda