I awoke on a cold Sunday morning at the gate of Seattle's Japanese Garden with 10 minutes to spare before opening. This was my first trip to a Japanese Garden and wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I'm sure everybodies sterotypical images consist of Koi fish, raked sand, Japanese maples over a lake, statues, etc.
As you enter that garden, you walk down a relaxing short trail through a sparce forest and soon come upon a split in the trail with each side wrapping around the pond. Personally I took the left hand path, I'm not a left handed person or on the left side compared to the right whatever that even means. Soon glass surface of a small pond poked through the folage revealing a very relaxing Pond with the orange glow of shoe box size Koi goldfish swimming below it's surface. As I walked out on the bridge that cut the pond in half I soon spotted a school of Koi goldfish swimming straight for me! I regretted not buying any of the Koi food that was available as I first walked in because everytime somebody walked out on a bridge or dock, all of the fish would swim straight for them. I snapped this picture below while I first walked out on the bridge and really enjoyed how alive and strange the image is with the fish coming straight at the viewer.
Koi Attack
Soon the bridge was filled with people throwing Koi food below the bridge, feeding the school below. I continued my walk down the gardens peaceful paths walking past a tea house, several small statues, small streams, and finally toward the entrance again. As I was just about to leave the garden after my day of exploring, I took this picture of a smaller bridge supporting the dirt path that winds off behind the trees. It is a very peaceful photograph displaying the landscaping of the garden and the purely moss covered forest floor inside the garden.
Peaceful Path
Both of these photographs displayed the garden in two very different ways, cast your vote on which picture you believe is "The Perfect Picture" of Rialto Beach.
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