My husband and I have been married twenty years and we celebrated our anniversary by visiting the Meijer Gardens near Grand Rapids Michigan.  The gardens have a huge conservatory with tropical plants, and acres and acres of gardens outside that are beautifully planted and showcase giant sculpture.

The gardens are wonderful, the sculpture interesting, sometimes even funny…and right now there is a special installation of giant art glass interspersed among the waterfalls, flowers, grasses, hills, woods and sculptures.

There were so many wonderful, colorful, playful and striking things to see; I have so many pictures to show you, but I guess I’ll try to limit myself here.

It’s going to be difficult to choose…

…because there were just so many amazing things to see.

I wish you could all have been there…

…to see the glass balls bobbing in the water and nestled among the rocks in the waterfalls…

…and the tall rushes in the woods…

…and tucked in among the real rushes near the wetlands.

So much to share with you.  Maybe I’ll put a few more pictures up tomorrow.

Meanwhile, did you see the big hawk sitting on top of the huge horse sculpture?