"The colours of Autumn"

A saunter through the Nicholas Gardens (Sherbrooke) : 13 May 2008

         

(Note: this album is an experiment with a single column format. Comments on the format are welcome - Dale)

Edit: 26 May 2009


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 We've all seen the sign as we drive along the edge of Sherbrooke Forest

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 Just inside the gate, one of the consequences of Autumn is obvious

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 Also obvious is the enormous fenced-off house, built with Aspro proceeds, with its huge staircase down to the gardens below

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 The house from the back

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 From the garden below, the house looks imposing

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 - - obviously!

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 No small garden this. Those who had not seen it before were unanimous - it's huge

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 As we stood and watched, the leaves fell

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 Other leaves seemed ready to fall

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 "To the Lake", said one of the signs, and the lake was also colourful

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 Still waters plus bridge = reflection

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 But there was this intruder who seemed to pop up everywhere

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 There is a second bridge over the lake too, but we had trouble figuring out how to work it

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 Some of our number were fascinated by that bridge

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 Others were fascinated by some of the plants

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 A rather long downhill walk was followed by a rather long uphill walk. No ski-lift.

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 There were a few little pump houses around - all looking like they had not pumped for a long time

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 Interesting artworks keep the rotunda company

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 Here's Madam Pres looking underwhelmed by the artwork

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 The house is fenced off, and although it has a sign, no-one believed it.

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 Back at the exit gate, something seemed to capture Madam Pres's attention

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 This little sign.

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 From Nicholas Gardens we moved on to the nearby George Tindale Memorial gardens. Not the same scale as the Nicholas gardens, but also impressive

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 One of the features of the Tindale gardens - a rock that muscle bound fems can rotate

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 Finally - the purpose of the walk (and every other walk) - coffee time - this time at Kallista - with the birds

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 What Helen was describing here? A mystery. Probably Sicilian drivers (recently observed).


 This is just a sampling of the photos of the Walk. The full size pics are on a CD in the Boomerang Library.
 

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