The Japanese Garden - August 26th, 2010

Grabbed this shot just a couple of feet directly above a literal feeding frenzy at the huge koi pond in Seattle’s Japanese garden. The koi in the pond are proportional gigantic, and they swarm wherever they think food may be. Some of the fish in this picture are easily larger than a dachshund. Full size available here.

The images in this set were all grabbed at the Japanese garden in Seattle’s arboretum (map in a box). It’s a cute little garden that’s really just big enough to make for a nice summer morning’s walk. This time around there’s a nice mix of black & white and colour. Yes, colour.

Pads

Just a portion of the lily field in the pond. Full size available here.

Mr. Turtle

Mr. Turtle resides in the pond. He’s quite friendly, and actually swam right up to us in high hopes that we had brought him a treat. Full size available here.

You Are Not a Fish, Mr. Turtle

Though there are several other shellbacks in the neighborhood, Mr. Turtle likes to hang out with the gargantuan koi that live in the pond with him. They, however, do not accept him as one of their own. Full size available here.

Cave of Coins

Found this view inside an old stone lantern-tower in the garden. Apparently people had been leaving pennies in it for luck, Canadians included. Full size available here.

The Dancing Bokeh Spider

This one’s best viewed really big. The spider’s near center-frame, but I didn’t want to crop out the web and background-bokeh just to make him more prominent. I did, however, make a cropped version for better spider-viewing (see it in a box). Full un-cropped size available here, with the cropped version here.