Every Picture Tells a Story ... Don't It:" Brookgreen Gardens, Part III | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Arguably, an attraction of the size and quality of Brookgreen Gardens demands multiple visits. Conveniently, there is an additional incentive to do so for the span of 7 days after the initial day's visit. During that time period the cost of each subsequent visit is no charge.

    If you had read the first two installments, Every Picture Tells a Story ... Don't It:" Brookgreen Gardens, Part I, which was shot on April 13, 2011, and Every Picture Tells a Story ... Don't It:" Brookgreen Gardens, Part II, you would have discovered my unvarnished opinion that this was time well spent. With tickets priced at $12.00 for adults for the one-week period, I can't think of a better attraction value, with one caveat: You have to be a true lover of both nature and art, and enjoy a good long walk.
    With over 1400 sculptures by mostly American sculptors, there is absolutely no way that one can see all of them in one, or two days, for that matter. We definitely needed a second day just to fully realize that we probably needed a third, or maybe a fourth day, as well. We made it back for a short second day of maybe three hours and even with a partially overcast late afternoon, it was quite beautiful. The partially cloudy day, where the puffy clouds struck a hard bargain with clear, blue sky for equal time did, however, make for a lovely sunset.

    Ammons Pond is close to the entrance, and exists within a circular drive. The way of the road lends an alluring image of water, wood and stone. It was so captivating that we parked the car and began our first walk of the afternoon.

    The big marble sculpture is intricately chiseled to reveal another example of the ongoing natural relationship between Man and beast: Above. Our walk took us under the spreading Live Oak trees to the Sculpture Gardens: Below.      images by Stan Deatherage
    Around the corner within the garden is this bronze male lion that I liked. I'll get the artist's name, as I mentioned in an earlier installment, when I return to Brookgreen Gardens: Above.      image by Stan Deatherage
    Walking from our parked Mustang, near Ammons Pond, we find sculptures along the water's edge of Jasmine Pond. In an earlier installment, Every Picture Tells a Story ... Don't It:" Brookgreen Gardens, Part II, we chronicled two other impressive bronze sculptures.

    In this third image of a bronze sculpture, I lend a lifted shoulder to stabilize the maiden, who appears to be floating in air: Above.      image by Lynn Deatherage     Inside the Sculpture Garden, near the Painey Sculpture Pavillion, there stands this tall bronze scultpure, which is a component of a four-part series, Circle of Life: Below.      image by Stan Deatherage

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