A Really Big Garden

Knowing it would be getting up to 70 degrees today, we wanted to make the most of this beautiful weekend. I had read in the paper about an intriguing exhibit at the Meijer Sculpture Gardens in Grand Rapids. The artist, Jaume Plensa, had some interesting work here. Above is pictured a giant man made of letters.

Here is Emma inside the man of letters, Of course, by her letter E. The other favorite thing by Plensa was a hall of gongs inside an exhibit hall. The gongs were all engraved with different quotes and were available for the gonging. They made an amazing sound.

We were excited to see this sculpture by Alexander Calder. Our family recently read "The Calder Game", so it was fun to see a real-life example of his art.

The Children's Garden was huge and full and fun things. The photo above shows Emma turning a wheel connected to a large orange nose. The spinning wheel made a pleasant caramel-apple type smell flow from the nostrils. Oh, yes. We went there.

And it was good.