Cultural Gardens: Part IV

Well, it's about time to finish off my series on the Cleveland Cultural Gardens for the moment. To wrap things up, I wanted to share some pictures of the newest Garden, the still under construction Syrian Garden.


Construction began in early August. These photos are from October, which makes sense considering the lack of snow in all of them. :) Below you can see the beginnings of a center focal point surrounded by a stone amphitheater.


The next view was taken from the upper landing of the garden just off East Boulevard. Partway down the stairway, you can see a decorative second landing in the form of an eight-pointed star. I'm looking forward to seeing how the entire space continues to take form once we emerge from the Cleveland winter.


And that completes my tour of some of the newer sights in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. We'll definitely have to revisit the gardens once the weather gets nice again. In the meantime, there are some big changes happening on a daily basis in downtown Cleveland that you'll all want to see, especially if you do not get down there on a daily basis. Hope to have those put together for you all very soon!

Cultural Gardens: Part III

Happy 2011 to everyone! It's been a long several months for me, but I'm back in the new year and ready to post both some old and some new photos.

During the month of November, I thought that I might be leaving Cleveland for other pastures. Of course, that would have spelled a quick end to this blog. Thankfully for the blog, it was not meant to be, and instead some opportunity came about locally. That has kept me a little too busy to post, but I'm finally getting settled enough to devote some time online again.

Picking up where we left off in October, here is the third installment of new and exciting changes in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. This time around I wanted to show some new renovations to existing gardens. Along with all the new additions in the past decade, so many of the cultural gardens have seen a lot of love and care that they might not have gotten at some points in previous years.

First off, over the summer, the Estonian Garden got a little face lift in the form of a new stone path from the road and a new raised planter in the middle of the path.


Here you can see the text of a poem inscribed at the base of the planter.



The Irish Cultural Garden also got a big change, courtesy of a huge new fountain.


Along with the fountain, there are a number of black stone memorials to famous people of Irish ethnicity. And of course the beautiful garden and paths surrounding it all!


In the next couple days I'll have one more installment on the Cleveland Cultural Gardens before we move on to other parts of Cleveland and the surrounding region.