11 posts tagged “como park”
On the third Sunday of August, Como Park hosts a Japanese lantern lighting festival. I was asked to be an attendant to this koto player. She played as lanterns were lit and floated across a pond.
About nine years ago I started volunteering in the Como Park Japanese Garden. I told my supervisor that my ambition was to create a web site featuring Como Park. She bought a digital camera for me to use and paid my way in a community education web creation class. I can't get the original floppy to load so I do not know the exact date. The flower is of a Hemp Banana plant. The camera was a 1280 something (1 Mpx).
This is one of the koi that are in the Japanese Garden pond at Como Park. Koi are really carp. The colors are from mutations that have occured within the last 200 years or so.
I used this for a screen saver for about a year. Shortly after this picture was taken this addition of the Como Park Consevatory was torn down. The statue is in storage (I think).
My Tuesday afternoon volunteering in the Japanese Garden included some rain last week. I brought my camera along
anticipating this photo opportunity. The rocks look really great when they are wet. The tree bark also appears nice and black. Also, an overcast sky minimizes washed out highlights.
This albino squirrel decide to move into the tree in my front yard. I started seeing it every day about the time this maple tree dropped its bountiful crop of maple seeds. The three or four other squirrels that already live around my house don't seem to mind. I guess they figure there is enough food to last practically forever.
