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Tradewinds Photo Gallery Your Moment of Zen
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Your Moment of Zen

Tranquility is perhaps the most precious commodity. The Japanese Zen garden allows us to leave behind temporal distractions and commune with the greater whole. Take delight in the most transitory of nature's gifts, the everyday simple beauty of unremarkable things.

Date: 05/02/11
Size: 8 items
THE DANCE

THE DANCE

Slyvan reflections ripple and glisten to the will of the wind and sun. Coy glide in their silent, liquid world. They cannot pass the surface, but we can try.

Date: 04/09/11
Views: 188
Simplicity

Simplicity

Japanes Zen gardens are havens of tranquility and simplicity. The weathered rock tells more than the distractions of the gilded god statue.

Date: 04/14/11
Views: 168
SHAFT of LIGHT

SHAFT of LIGHT

Bamboo, the giant of grasses, ambitiously, relentlessly grows, reaching towards the sun.

Date: 04/10/11
Views: 152
BRIDGES

BRIDGES

Silent solidity of stone. Stillness of water. Solitude, tranquilty in the warm sunshine.

Date: 04/12/11
Views: 166
GRAVEL SEA

GRAVEL SEA

The gravel is solid, seemingly timeless, the design, the shadows, the lighting are transitory, changing with the will of man and nature. We think of forever, we live for a moment.

Date: 04/10/11
Views: 161
BAMBOO AND FERN

BAMBOO AND FERN

The planet spins, the sun moves and the shadow disappears. It is nothing, it is everything. It is here, now, as we are, as we will someday be gone.

Date: 04/09/11
Views: 174
RIPPLES

RIPPLES

The rhododendron flowers bud, bloom, give pollen to the bees, then fall. Their reflection is more transitory, but can remain in the mind longer if we find more beauty there.

Date: 04/14/11
Views: 185
TINY UNIVERSE

TINY UNIVERSE

The rice paper doors of Tenju-An's meditation hall open onto the "sea" of gravel and the artfully arranged trees beyond. It is a study in graceful balance and simplicity.

Date: 04/09/11
Views: 160
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