Gardens and Google

[vilakins]

First up, the astronomy picture of the day is a garden - a galaxy garden in Kona, Hawaii. There's a lot more about it here, with an explanation of the layout. Just to give you an idea of how big the real thing is, our sun and most familiar stars we can see are on the same or neighbouring leaves.

This leads me into the amazing Garden of Cosmic Speculation in Scotland which takes science and maths as its inspiration. It's only open one day a year so I'll never see it. The people at CERN however are talking about making a replica there.

And the Google logo for today (the 19th, where I am) is a still life in the style of Cézanne for his 172nd birthday. Someone did a pretty good job on that.

Comments

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

Thank you for such nice inspirational links. I think I saw the Scottish garden (or something like it) on an Alan Titchmarsh thing sometime.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see a programme on it.

[jekesta]

What stunning gardens, thanks for the links:)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Those gardens are incredible, especially the one in Scotland...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Isn't it! And they created it just for themselves.

[samantha-vimes.livejournal.com]

That garden is amazing!

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Those gardens are amazing. Thanks for linking.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Dear, you made my evening! Thank you very much for showing me these unique compositions. It is a real miracle! Both places are fantastic, oh my, there are so many incredible places in the world!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'd like a galaxy garden, but our land is too steep.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

For that, south Bohemia would be perfectly flat - but it si too cold!:-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

There are a few flat places in Auckland, but not our property. Anyway, I prefer garden like the one we have: very much self-maintaining except for the occasional weeding or pruning.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is also my idea of a garden. Unfortunately I can´t have anything but fruit trees , flower beds and several green plants because the ground is solid clay covered with 5 cm of good soil and only some places can be used.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We have a lot of clay too.

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

Thank you for those links; quite fun and interesting reads.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Have you been to the Kona one?

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't been to that one. My brother lives on that island, but I'm not sure if he's ever gone to the garden.

[pebblerocker]

I love the black hole fountain with the water pouring down past the event horizon!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes! If I ever go to Hawaii, I'm going there.