Japanese Tea Gardens San Antonio REopening this weekend- another link added

[onewingedangel73106]

I just ran across this on ksat and thought Id share http://www.ksat.com/news/15520954/detail.html
10am saturday they will open to the public :)

Another article on it http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sa...ml?jst=b_ln_hl

Edit one more link http://www.mysanantonio.com/salife/g...en.2ec9d9.html with a few pictures it takes reloading it a few times to come up.

[Murph]

Sweet.

[Bella]

I'm sooooo glad to see this!! And can't wait to make a trip to SA to see it in person!

-Cindy

[onewingedangel73106]

I went for a bit this morning it was soo packed you couldnt hardly move but I did get some pictures that Ill post later today and I guarantee I will be going back sometime during the week when there arent as many people.

[Murph]

I'll be there tomorrow!

[kenw]

We're in SA this weekend, but I decided the hoards of opening day folks would best be left to themselves. I'll wait until later in the spring, we'll be back often anyway.

We went there a few times during the "dark period", you could just feel the potential oozing from every nook and crannie. If you could tightly frame/crop, it was possible to get some nice shots even then. But it took a lot of work and wasn't nearly as much fun as it was before. It appears that it is now even better than ever.

If you go, try to find a way to contribute to the volunteers who took this on.

[TXFZ1]

I must be getting old and my memory is fading. I always though the garden was designed by an Japanese man that basically took the quarry and turned it into a garden. He was interned during WWII and returned to SA to finish the garden. According to the SA parks website he was interned but never returned. They changed the name to Chinese Sunken Gardens until the 60's. I remembering this from a visit many moons ago and thought I read it off a plaque in the garden.

http://www.sanantonio.gov/sapar/japa...=1280&ver=true

David

[Murph]

Here are some from Sunday with Ken:

The bridge.





The waterfall. I lugged a 4x5 here many a weekend, it looks so sad, but in two to three years, it will once again be the beautiful waterfall I spent so many hours photographing



The gardens look rather sad, but the volunteers did a wonderful job, now it just needs time to heal, grow, and get back to what it was.