Thanks to Snuff I have been boning up on the epic art of Japanese rock gardens, or karesansui. I went back to Edgewater – the very name hints at the art – to immerse myself in the verge masterpieces.
There is paving at Ryōan-ji, and there is paving here. The obelisks erode, reminding us that our time here is temporary. To paraphrase Nishon: if the ducks quack, but we are not there, have they really quacked?
This lush tableaux salutes the moss garden at Saihō-ji. Each Astroturf blade has been carefully placed. The bricks are a bridge over the river, inviting us into the grove.
I knocked on the door here: the resident said his garden was called The Solitude of Crowds. We discussed a certain Kobe garden. He invited me to sit on the porch of his hojo. We watched the monoliths erode.
I found this a little showy (but what do I know!). A miniature landscape within a miniature landscape? And yet it is mostly space.
As the Sakuteiki says: “There should always be more horizontal than vertical stones.” How would you cross the river to get to the bait table? What better spot to meditate than in a river? That way you become the eroding rock.
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The Worst of Perth 
If I had to wake up and look out upon a front yard like the last one, every morning – I’d seriously consider committing seppuku.
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Magnificent. Once again Perth shows the world how it’s done.
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There’s a lot to lichen about these gardens.
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Uninformed criticism is a mosstake.
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Like that saying, “An unexamined wife is a something, something…”?
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A wife in the pond beats a frog in the kitchen?
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An unexamined wife is worth two on the boat ramp.
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Chicken lichen? or itchin’ lichen?
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They’ve got rocks in their heads.
It looks, to me, like a brick of an idea.
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Not worst. At least making an effort. And quite uniquely Perth.
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Surely a car wouldn’t go into these??
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Nah!
Straight between them on its way into the front bedroom/loungeroom.
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Perth stonehenge. For druids driving Commodores.
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According to Today Tonight it’s becoming quite the thing in Brisbane and Sydney. Good to see they’re catching up.
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You know we’re paying for two-thirds of their karesansui.
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Let’s leave these conclusions to ECU thanks. I don’t see their academics pontificating on the state of the Indiana Teahouse toilets.
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There’s plenty for everyone?
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It brings the weary traveller back to a state of mindfulness.
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Jacarandas must be close to joining cocos on the Worst of … lists. A tribute to the free ranging thought of Perth’s local government mandarins.
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In ancient times
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
There lived a strange race of people………the Druids
No one knows who they were
Or what they were doing.
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock of……….STONEHENGE!
(Smell the Glove LP – 1984)
I think you mob have the right string, but the wrong yo-yo. This is clearly the work of medieval Faeries and Druids. Can’t you see it?
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18″
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Edgewater? The first one is Two Rocks.
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That’s GOLD, Arcadia!
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