My favorite part of this layout is from your journaling: "rounded stones in a fluid pattern that flows down the hills like a river." Beautifully descriptive. My only suggestion is to change the color of the two titles to a lighter color, as it is dificult to read. I think everything else is extraordinary! :)
The Chinese Way of Using Stone Know the Fish Bridge The Garden of Hamonious Interests
n Sunday, January 8, 2006, Xiulan and I went to the Summer Palace. I told her I would go wherever she wanted to go and she lead me to the Garden of Harmonious Interests, where she hoped to find some older people in one of the pavilions, singing songs from the Chinese Opera. The singers were not there because it was too cold. Many of the visitors that day were older folks who sat quietly enjoying the winter scene.
The garden was nearly vacant, perhaps because so many had visited the Summer Palace the preceding weekend, over the 3 day New Year holiday. On this quiet day, we were able to enjoy many of the pleasures of the garden in isolation, as the Imperial family might have enjoyed them. These pathways have wide flat smooth central pavers, and on the sides, craftsman laid rounded stones in a fluid pattern that flows down the hills like a river.
This garden was built around a pond filled with lotus. When the lotus bloomed the garden was filled with intoxicating fragrance.
All terraces, pavilions, halls and water houses here are connected by corridors. The entire purpose of the garden is to ease the visitor’s mind.
Created digitally, using PSP 9, Photoshop Elements 2.0, and digital scrapbooking files (like Ekits) from Cottage Arts.
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