Last week Bob and I took a day to just get out and have fun. We went to the Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park which is about 30 minutes from our home. I've shown you this place before because Laura and Aaron have given us a membership there for the last few years. We enjoy going and walking around different areas. It's huge so we'd never get the whole thing done in one visit.
There are different sections, like the sculpture park, a Japanese Garden, a woodlands walk, the kids garden, a farm garden and a boardwalk. This time we decided to focus on the sculpture park.
This was founded by Fred Meijer, who started Meijer stores and is such a gift to our community and all the people who visit it from all over. This is a statue of Fred and his wife Lena.
I've shown this statue before, but it's so impressive I have to share again. This is the DaVinci horse, made from a DaVinci drawing. There is an identical horse in Italy. You can see how big it is by looking at those spots on the hill behind it. Those are people.
This one is called Neuron. I'm not usually a fan of more modern type sculpture but this one looks kind of cool sitting out in nature.
This pond and waterfalls is so pretty!
Balancing Act
The Arch
Not a sculpture! :) Just a selfie we took along the way.
We had been there a few hours when we finished the sculpture area and decided we weren't ready to go home yet, so we walked over to the farm garden. This is a replica of the farm that Lena Meijer grew up on.
All of the gardens have sculptures through them. This was by the house and I thought it was sweet.
Isn't this pig the cutest?
This raven sculpture made me think of my friend Jenny from I'm Having a Thought Here. She loves Poe and I knew she would appreciate them.
One last sculpture as we leave the farm area. This is Lena Meijer as a girl, riding a pig!
We walked through the woodlands to get back to the entry. It was a beautiful day to enjoy nature and art both!
22 comments:
Dear Mari, what an enchanting place. The sculptures are amazing, the views are beautiful and the pig 🐖 is so cute. The horse 🐎 is majestic and the ravens look real. I love your selfie as well.
I can see myself spending a few hours walking there, just enjoying the calm and beauty.
Thank you 😊 so much for sharing your photos.
Hi Mari! Thanks for sharing the pictures of your adventure! Yes to your selfie! 👫Always important to include yourselves😀
I love this place! I love Poe, and crows even better. The arch looks like it has no mortar to hold it together, just the pressure of the bricks!! I love the big horse, it looks like it is prancing. The photo of the two of you is really lovely!
I loved looking at these pictures of beautiful nature and skillful works of art. The horse is especially beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
What a beautiful place to visit. The Botanical Gardens in St. Louis is very similar and we love visiting there. That pig is the cutest. It looks like you had a wonderful day!
Breath taking beautiful, my friend. Wishing you a lovely day.
Oh Mari, how absolutely beautiful this park is!!! WOW!!!! What a great way to spend the day out. Thank you for sharing the beauty! Love, Andrea xoxo
That was a nice day out! I love the horse so tall. Today we’ve just seen hundreds of horses here. And we saw storks.
The garden you visited is really beautiful 😍
It looks like a lovely place to spend a quiet afternoon...and yes, that pig is the cutest!!
I am so enjoying the outings that y'all have been taking and I so appreciate you sharing them. These are places that I most likely will never see in person. Absolutely gorgeous place...so full of God's beauty and the talents He has given men. I love the PIG!!
I want to visit this place.
LOVE the PIG!
Amazing Horse
wow on the neuron
the first photo of them on the bench I knew who they were, we have 3 of their sculptures in our main library, a distinctive style and so beautiful. usually there will be one that I don't care for. today you knocked it out of the park. I love all of these. I want the pig
Love all the statues! That is a nice selfie of you and Bob.
Such a lovely spot to visit.
What a peaceful and beautiful place. I would love to go there too. I would probably become the MadSnapper.
Great sculptures, especially the two girls and their bouquets and that pig...
Sue
So beautiful
Wow is that place beyond amazing. Every post you have shared about it just intrigues me more. I understand why you love getting to visit it so often. It seems there is always something new to discover. Thanks for sharing!! I loved seeing the stunning photos. :)
Mari, the sculpture garden is wonderful!
What a cool place! That would be a fun visit. Y'all look good too. ❤️
Such a beautiful and fun place to walk around. I'm sure I'd love it too.
What a beautiful place to have available to you.
Definitely a place I would visit if I lived near it.
Lovely photographs from your visit.
The sculptures were all so good.
I like the selfie too :)
All the best Jan
What a beautiful place! I can see why you'd love to go there over and over. It has so many interesting and beautiful items to see, along with the natural beauty all around. Thank you for sharing it with us. I enjoyed every bit of it!
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