Wandering Wednesday - Portland Japanese Garden

It was a real treat to get to visit the Portland Japanese Garden once again, and this time during a different season--Autumn, and with friend Jaye who hadn't been there before.

It was truly marvelous to see how different the garden looked with all the changing colors of the leaves.

This one maple was the most vibrant glowing red, it really stood out against the dark rhododendrons behind it.

There was a lot more moss happening which was lovely to see.

I loved the colorful messiness of the fallen leaves on the orderly raked gravel designs.

I really enjoyed this gorgeous artwork, Cross Currents by Anne Crumpacker, which is made of cross-cut bamboo.

Even the bonsai trees had color-changing going on.

This little leaf is So Big in this picture. It was really about an inch and half wide.

Now we come to some of the many pattern and texture pictures that I took during this visit. Honestly, I took a lot of the same pictures during my last visit with DH in the summer of 2024. I find these all very intriguing and worth examining for possible quilt designs.

Some would obviously and easily make great quilt designs.

This would be interesting piecing.

This makes me think of framing of interior quilt borders, or very heavy quilting designs. With the gorgeous colors behind of course.

This picture reads as a quilt design to me.

That's probably enough for now.

Perfectly Accidental

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 Sometimes you end taking an accidental picture that’s not going to get deleted like all the blurry ones of your feet. You know when you’re done taking your “actual “ intended picture but don’t click off the phone quite fast enough. That’s what this is. And it’s one of the best pictures that I’ve taken in a long while. I never would have come up with this perfect composition. Or the texture variety, rough wood, machine marked wood, smooth wood, blurry grass, pressed concrete. Or the golden late sunset dramatic warm lighting creating the glare reflections and the shadows.

I thought it would make an interesting quilt design or a carved stamp. I played around with it In SnapSeed and quite like the black and white version.