A Chinese Garden in the heart of Phoenix
Chatty recently made a trip downtown to the Chinese Cultural Center, where she found wonderful restaurants, lovely stores and a gigantic Oriental market selling everything from fresh vegetables and fish to Chinese herbs and rice cookers. Chatty used to take for granted all the wonderful Oriental markets in the Los Angeles area, but they are fewer and farther between here in Arizona, so Chatty had a wonderful time strolling the aisles and trolling for tasty treasures.
Best of all, the Cultural Center has a magnificent traditional garden, with an ornamental pond, pavilions, statues and carvings. Although the garden has busy streets steps away on two sides, it is nevertheless a peaceful oasis where one can stroll and meditate.
Naturally, Chatty went a bit crazy taking pictures - but she has winnowed it down to these, and hopes you will get a sense of the place from them.
whoa, a few changes here, eh? NICE!
and thanks for the tour, you're a good photographer!
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What a beautiful and tranquil place!! I wish Des Moines had more cultural places like this. The city is trying, but always seems to come up short here. We have a Japanese display downtown on our "riverwalk" (I use this term loosely) that is suppose to honor our sister city in Japan. The problem is the funding fell through about 2/3 the way through the project and there it sits unfinished. Sad.
I'm also so jealous to see all the beautiful blues and greens of the water and palm trees. The browns and whites here are getting a little ho hum.
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I'd been wondering where Chatty had been as Chatty hadn't been very chatty lately.
Beautifully, peaceful pictures. Thanks for sharing!
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Hmmmm. Are you referring to the fact that Chatty finally got up her nerve and posted a picture of herself? If so, she's still having second thoughts, but realized that she herself likes to be able to put a face with the words, and so decided it was only fair that others be able to do the same at her blog. Being a photographer, Chatty is always behind the camera, and abhors being in front of it, because she photographs VERY BADLY. So, thanks for the kind words, Gary! And I'm glad you liked the Chinese Garden. The pictures don't begin to do it justice, but at least it gives people an idea of how lovely the place is...
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