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| My Garden Sculpture Bird is engulfed in my growing garden, even in the dry season. This is as intended, a changing garden, my little jungle growing around the bird. Sculpture by Anthony Joseph Jeroski. |
See more photos of My Garden in my bigger Flora & Forest Gallery
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| ¡Pura Vida! |
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| On the hill behind my neighbor’s house he has this very full, lush garden that is more than camera shows! Anthony has spent a lot of time and money making this full hillside garden next door. |
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| And by his front door this nice garden in front of my house. |
Anthony is a good neighbor for many reasons and his gardens are certainly one of those! Together we keep our landlord’s property looking good and we both use the same gardener to keep our yards up. If you live in Atenas, it is J&C Gardens or contact me to get the phone number or email address. We think they are very good.
Yes, this is the Anthony who made the garden-art clay bird in my garden though he does not have anything similar in his garden yet. He will eventually.
And there is my under construction FLORA & FORESTS photo gallery if interested.
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| “Open Bird” Garden Art by Anthony Jeroski, Garden of Charlie Doggett, Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica, front door view. Anthony just emailed another suggested name of “Holy Bird” for the holes in it, but holy has many other meanings for me. |
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| Vertical View of Garden Art from front door. |
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| Arrival View or First Impression from the Driveway In some ways I like this view best – more subtle. |
The fired clay sculpture was made of Costa Rican clay by my former next door neighbor Anthony and was fired at the University of Costa Rica the week before he left for his new art experiences in Spain. I wanted it to be like one of the flowers growing out of my garden. At first I looked for driftwood to mount it on but couldn’t find what I had in mind. Then I found this tree stump just tall enough to bring it up with the taller flowers. I think it is just right! Here it is on the stump before installed in the garden:
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| Once installed in the garden, it sort of looks like the bird is growing up out of the ground. I got the stump at a rustic furniture shop, Muebles Rusticos They mostly make rustic furniture out of items like this, including the table I got there for my terrazzo between the two rocking chairs (next photo) |
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| A place to sit drinks when sitting in the rocking chairs! Costa Rica loves it woods! Most furniture and house ceilings are wood. And the rustics like this table are popular. The car is last weekend’s rent car in my driveway in front of the garden. |