{"id":2016,"date":"2012-08-24T08:49:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2012-08-24T08:49:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:49:44","slug":"maine-botanical-garden-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Maine Botanical Garden Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

As amazing as the plants and flowers were, the art scattered through out the garden were equally wonderful.<\/p>\n

As you enter, these life sized animals greet you; there was a pair of wolves and a pair of deer made of rebar and smaller rods. So very realistic!<\/p>\n

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This over-sized chair made from driftwood looks almost like the skeleton of something that once lived! It was in the children’s garden and I’ll bet it offers an amazing photo-op.<\/p>\n

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\nThis wonderful pair of wire birds stood out against the huge blooms.<\/p>\n

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On the wooded trail this glass orb literally glowed against the dark foliage. It is made from what looked like small pieces of broken glass, maybe windshield glass I think.<\/p>\n

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This life sized Heron near the waterfall seems poised to nab the real frog that cooperated in my photography composition.<\/p>\n

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These were only a few of the many artworks to be seen in the gardens. If I lived there I’d be a member for sure, and visit often.<\/p>\n

Here on the home-front we are getting RAIN!!!\u00a0 Yesterday morning I continued my garden renovations and dug out 125 (yes, I counted) Surprise Lily bulbs from just one bed. Now there’s a plant that likes Kansas but even it is not blooming well this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As amazing as the plants and flowers were, the art scattered through out the garden were equally wonderful. As you enter, these life sized animals greet you; there was a pair of wolves and a pair of deer made of rebar and smaller rods. So very realistic! This over-sized chair made from driftwood looks almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,39],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gardening","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}