The steam engine has grown over with flowers thru the summer of '09
Silo Staves from a silo Devil helpped tear down are used in the building of this waterfall
The silo stave seat is back filled with garden soil for planting.
Mary tries out the wall seat
Neighbors relax ,
Gertrude tries Fishing,, don't tell her the fish won't come in til spring 2010
Rocks were placed on the birm. Each one by hand. Roses were planted along the birm
The construction of the Waterfall is completed. Blue color is added to the water. A basket with plants found locally, a iris plant and small swamp tree are placed in the pond.
A neighbor friend gave Devil a pair of Trolls . They have solar powered eyes that light up in the dark.
The Pelican on posts and frogs are from the Oxford pond and were brought with on the move from Oxford
The walks are made from flat stone recovered from an excavation site. Nearly every peice of building material used in building the watergardens, bridge & Three Seasons room, including the workshop , is made from recovered materials. Wood for the bridge came from a dump pile at the local lumber yard. They had installed a new deck for a customer and hauled the pieces of the old deck to thier burn pile. Devil hauled it here, sorted scraped old paint , cut to sizes needed and painted before contruction.
Deivl cut the decorative panals in the center of the bridge and topped them with disgaurded spindal rails found locally. The finales that top the posts, found at a local shop , that sells such things as odd boxes of things other stores can't get rid of. They were purchased for 25 cents each.
This post is at the start of the walkway. The Pirate was brought with from Oxford. A rumage sale find. Made from a coconut. The sign a gift from a friend
The Waterfall area walkway begins with four silo staves lighted by solar ground lights, (from a rummage sale here in town) Many of the plants, including those in the Flower Island , were aquired in a trade for refinishing furniture.
The side door of the Three Seasons Room, is from the house. It was saved for this purpose. A new door & storm door were needed on the house to keep the winter cold outside. Scraped of old paint and repainted, serves well now.
A piece of Arborvitae trunk is added to the Flower Island ,
The Zomie is placed on the Arbovitae trunk. She is also from Oxford, both coconuts had been hung from the porch at Oxford.Looking at them , makes me think about the fun we had while we lived in Oxford.
Bittersweet vines are planted to grow up the water tower. Little plastic sale boats are used for boat races. A few duck decoys float about the pond.
This is the side yard of the Three Seasons Room. Plans are to build an outdoor fire place grill with oven in the summer of 2010. Friends have donated materials. Bob donated the grates to girll the foods on and also a pile of fire block bricks for the base., plus a huge pile of bricks recovered from a local house that was removing thier chiminey. Devil hauled them here in the pickup truck. Reo has offerred up an old stove for the oven !
This is the view from the Three Seasons Room side yard
This is the view from the Window of the Three Seasons Room
Here we are looking out thru the French Doors thru the bridge to the gardens
The Waterfall seen from the bridge
This Chandlier, another rumage find, is made from wine glasses, wired for electric, eluminated with candle blubs. It is rather old. The antique table below the Chandlier , is an Italian baroque , early 1800. Mary will do as a restoration project . . As you scroll down this page, you will see photos of this table
The entry door to the workshop is from the Three Seasons room. This door is very old. Mary had gotten the door to use at Oxford. With paint remover and much sand paper and repainting , the door now fits well into this room.
The Apple and Cherry tree in bloom. Both produce nice fruit. Arborvitae grew too near to the house, They had to be cut down, but we saved the trunks to make a forest
The west end side of the birm is planted with day lilies and vines. Morning Glories will be seeded to climb the forest of trunks
This is the Italian Baroque Pedistal table set. The top is boat shaped, with an iron bar that has inset fluerettes accrossed near each end and ceramic tile surface.
Carvings on table edge Iron bar with fluerette inserts
The chairs have leather seats and back panals, nailed along the edges.
I must tell the Story of how the table set came to us. It begins with Keiran Powers, over fifty years ago buying a huge wooden shipping crate at an action that he wanted to convert to a storage shed. He opened the crate to find inside, this table set and other old pieces. He asked the actioneer what they wanted him to do with these and was told that they were his, if he didn't want them to put them on the burn pile! He didn't exactly want them but believed they shouldn't be burned so hauled all home and stored them one of his barns where they remained for 50 years.
The fifty years passed . One day, Devil was visiting Keiran, when first he noticed the table set in the back of the barn and asked Keiran about it.
He told Devil the story of how it came to be in the barn. He told Devil he wanted to clear the barn out and if Devil wanted the table set he could have it.
That was in 2005. Devil brought the table set home ( to Oxford where we lived at that time) and set it up in the Camelot Tent in the yard and stored it in the garage in the winters.
Mary had thoughts it could find a permanent place in the Three Seasons Room here in Westfield. And so it is, now waiting for restoratuion.
