March 27, 2024

MAR 27, special events: visit to Brookgreen Gardens, SC

   a) Reprise of material posted on March 27 in previous years ...


2020: Charleston garden, gazebos (illustrated poem)
2021: oncologic verse,
 facial nerve malfunction (poem) 
2022: death and afterlife, Will's last testament ( poem)
2023: reconstructive attitudes, starting point (illustrated poem)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... white ibis), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Mar 27, 2024): 

 
The largest sculpture garden in the United States, Brookgreen Gardens  was founded in 1931; it has on display some 1500 outdoor sculptures in an incredible natural setting located at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. 



visit to Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina


"The Saint James Triad", bronze sculpture 1997,
Richard McDermott Miller 



"Torse de Femme", limestone sculpture 1989,
David Klass



"Time and the Fates of Man", bronze 1939,
Paul Manship


visitor admiring Spanish moss


a quiet, floral corner


"Pegasus", granite 1954,
Laura Gardin Fraser







"Girl with Squirrel", 
Sylvia Shaw Judson

"Diana of the Chase", bronze 1922,
Anna Hyatt Huntington

Other Brookgreen Gardens statuary has been used to illustrate a number of verses and song-lyrics on this blog-site. Interested readers might want to review. ..

"Egad! No bondage!" verse, Terminal (poetic) exclamation  
"Three Bears in our Hot-Tub", parody-song lyrics 
"Leda and the Swan", verse, Mythed opportunities
"Aurora and Tithonus", verse, Mythed opportunities.

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