Sculptures Made by Nature
This allee of monumental boulders lead to the conservatory of the Ventura Farms in Thousand Oaks. My friend, Jan, treated me to a day of bliss enjoying the beauty at this Arabian Horse Farm. The owner described having traveled to Thailand to find, and have excavated, these monumental boulders beneath the River Kwai in Thailand. 
Tai Hu rocks are legendary stones sought by Chinese scholars. Little did I know, when first appreciating them in the gardens in Suzhou, China, that I would continue to see them in the United States. One was just being righted, with scaffolding, at the new Chinese Garden at the Huntington Gardens and Library in Pasadena, California, when I first visited. And, of course, there is one in the owner's California Well-Being Institute and Four Seasons Hotel at Westlake Village, beautifully installed in the center of a pond.
This allee of monumental boulders lead to the conservatory of the Ventura Farms in Thousand Oaks. My friend, Jan, treated me to a day of bliss enjoying the beauty at this Arabian Horse Farm. The owner described having traveled to Thailand to find, and have excavated, these monumental boulders beneath the River Kwai in Thailand. 
Tai Hu rocks are legendary stones sought by Chinese scholars. Little did I know, when first appreciating them in the gardens in Suzhou, China, that I would continue to see them in the United States. One was just being righted, with scaffolding, at the new Chinese Garden at the Huntington Gardens and Library in Pasadena, California, when I first visited. And, of course, there is one in the owner's California Well-Being Institute and Four Seasons Hotel at Westlake Village, beautifully installed in the center of a pond. 
2 comments:
What a contrast! One of the pictures reminds me of an exhbition by Henry Moore in one of Paris' beautiful parks, It was a pleasant contrast and a blend of nature and stone; some of his sculptures look very much like the ones in the pictures!
What an amazing place... You always seem to know about the best places around LA.
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