Garden Variety Inspiration

The photo above is of the Tofukuji Garden. Maybe in three or four hundred years my yard will be as well dressed. In three hundred years my yard could be so well tended that you have to stand at a safe distance to admire it. A landscape so precious that only the keepers set foot in it. So old that it is a national treasure. So valuable that it's maintenance gives rise to careers of master gardeners who become so great they have their own gardening T.V. networks.
If it is to be I'll never know. Still, the Japanese and their gardens are a great source of refreshing inspiration. I think this type of landscape represents a specific locale on the Japanese islands where the sea meets the land. Maybe I could do a landscape of Petit Jean mountain with the river flowing by and the flat, verdant river valley stretching out on the other side.
This garden in Japan is an inspirational testament to a culture as old as the ages. This garden in Argenta is only 80 years old. It is Bob and Becky's for now.