Meijer Gardens

You may remember this post I did after we visited Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park after Christmas.  Aaron and Laura gave us a membership for Christmas so we can go whenever we like.  That's a good thing because it's 158 acres, 30 acres of that is a Sculpture park, there's a conservatory and several different types of gardens.
Bob and I went this past week and spent several hours wandering around a few of them.

There is a large enclosed entry with openings giving you a glimpse of the gardens awaiting you.

There is a very large room when you first enter that has these sculptures on each wall.  You can see the size in comparison to the benches.  The look of the sculptures changes as you walk from side to side.

After walking through the building, which is very large and always has different exhibits going on, you enter the gardens at the back of this conservatory.

Here's the conservatory from a different angle.

There's a large children's garden that we've gone through before but didn't this time.  It's full of fun things, like water features, animal sculptures, things that make music and fun plants.

We walked to the Woodland Garden, which is interesting for us because we have so much shade in our yard, and Bob loves to look for new things to add at home.

There are paths to follow and they've built boardwalks over uneven places going through the woods which make it easier to walk.

And tucked into the gardens are so many sculptures, big and small.

After the woodland garden, we walked the boardwalk to the pond.

Along this walk, there are sculptures too.

In this one, there are 3 frog sculptures going up the hillside.

It was such a nice day, and we loved walking around, seeing all the beauty God put around us.

Next time we go, we hope to spend time in the Japanese gardens, so I'll have more to share later.