Japanese Garden Reprise

I know, it should be Florence but we are all somewhat stressed over an ongoing situation with the Glasgow flat and I just can't face looking at more photos of Florence and deciding what to write and which photos to share. I'm hoping to calm down over the next couple of days and be able to concentrate better. 

Meanwhile Son No 2 is with us for a week and as the weather looked sort of OK-ish we decided to go back to the Japanese Garden at Cowden, which the OH and I visited last spring,  as in spring 2024. The OH is a big acer fan and son no 2 had never been and was keen to see it, so off we went. 

The weather turned beautiful; warm and sunny. Oddly when coming out of the office having presented our tickets I heard an early middle aged-ish man say to the woman he was with, 'we'll be glad of our coats, it's turned chilly'. Which astonished me as I just had a shirt and jumper on, and felt a bit warm tbh. And the OH is always telling me how I feel the cold. 

We had a lovely stroll around the garden followed by a not terribly satisfactory lunch in the cafe, mainly because two of us made bad choices. We all took lots and lots of photographs and here are a few of mine.

Son no 2 on the Bridge of Doom. I went over it last time; I wasn't going to make the mistake of doing it again! 

It's a very beautiful and peaceful place and we all enjoyed our visit very much. I'm sure that as we live here longer we will have many more visits.