If you happen to be near Cal State - Long Beach, on any day other than Monday or Saturday, and have 10 minutes or so to kill, visit the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden. As for the "10 minutes to kill", I am not being sarcastic, this garden is very small.
Though this is a Japanese garden, it lacks some of the major attractions of any Japanese Garden. There were no cherry blossoms and there were no banzai trees. There were a couple of weeping willows and some local trees trying to be bent into banzai form.
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| Foot bridge with Weeping Willows |
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| Cattails |
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| Cattails |
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| Cattails |
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| Foot Bridge |
The prime attraction of the Garden is the koi pond. The pond is well stocked with koi of all ages. The koi are used to being hand-fed by kids and even reach out above the waterline to receive the food that is sold on-site. This was the first time I got so close to koi that I noticed their little barbels on the side of the mouth.
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| Koi |
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| Koi |
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| Koi |
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| Koi |
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| Heron Watching Koi |
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| Koi |
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| Koi above the surface |
Another interesting resident of the garden was this very red dragonfly...
Last but not least, was this blue heron that was flying around the garden area...
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| Heron Flying Across the Pond |
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| Happy Heron |
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| Heron Still Flying Across |
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| Heron |
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| Wet Necked Heron |
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| Heron |
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| Heron |
The complete collection of photos from this trip can be found at our Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden flickr set.
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1 comment:
what a gorgeous
koi pond photos and same with the koi fish
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