A Peaceful Place

This is a photograph of a Karesansui which is Japanese for dry landscape garden. It was taken at Huntington Gardens in Pasadena. When I walked through the entrance to it I was the only person there and it instantly felt calming and peaceful. These dry landscape gardens have been found at Zen Buddhist temples since the 14th century and are often called Zen gardens. The gravel is raked to depict waves in an open body of water and the rocks are placed to represent a body of land or mountains. The benches at this garden are for people to sit and take in the peace and abstract beauty of this garden. As I have said before if you want a wonderful day out walking around some beautiful gardens in the middle of a city the Huntington Gardens is well worth a visit.

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