june 6

Korakuen Garden - Okayama.  Two nice Heymannisms about this garden.  The first, that this is the playboy mansion of 18th century Japanese garden design.  The second is that "the whole periphery is terrorized by features."  Makes you want to terrorize your own garden with features one day.  There's a zig zaggy bridge, there's tea houses, lawns, nesting Japanese cranes, cherry tree glens, ponds with Koi, there's flowers, a covered structure for dipping your feet in a cool stream, there's a castle...It goes on and on.