January 21, 2013: Brookgreen Gardens (Day Two)
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Well, a new year has begun, and we'd planned last December that we would make a trip to Fort Lauderdale in January. In mid-January, we heard from Guy Blair that he father had fallen and was in the hospital, and he was planning to go down and help him. Since our plans were flexible, we made plans to leave Dallas on January 18th, the tail end of the first week Guy would be in Myrtle Beach, and stop there on our way to Florida. We timed the trip so that Guy would have the week to try to get his father situated without worrying about us underfoot, and we would arrive on Saturday morning the 19th. We'd stay with Guy until Tuesday, helping him where we could, and then continue on down on the second part of our trip to Fort Lauderdale. We'd stay longer if there were anything we could do to help Guy.

We'd been planning to bring the new cat, Zack, with us to Florida (since he is such a great traveler), and we thought we'd just leave him in the carrier whenever necessary, although Guy told us that since his father would not be at home, we could bring Zack inside. So that was the plan, and we headed east about ten on Friday morning.

Driving to Myrtle Beach

We got the car all loaded up on Friday morning, put Zack in his carrier, and headed out from Dallas.

It's a straight shot over to Atlanta on I-20 passing through Shreveport, Jackson and Birmingham. Between Birmingham and Atlanta I made reservations at a pet-friendly Super 8 on the outskirts of Atlanta, and we also called Jeffie to set up a time tomorrow morning when we could get together.

We stopped for supper just east of Birmingham, and by midnight we were taking Zack into the motel room.

The next morning we called Jeffie and arranged to meet for breakfast at an IHOP on the east side of Atlanta. She had riding lessons that morning, and the restaurant was convenient for her. We had a really nice visit before we headed out.

I had never actually driven from Atlanta over to the coast before, so this stretch of I-20 was new to me. But it was an easy drive (and I was able to add a new Baskin-Robbins to my list when we went through Augusta). I-20 ends when it intersects I-95, so from there we got out the GPS, entered the address of Guy's father's house, and headed off southeast through Conway. The weather was nice and it was a pleasant drive.

It was a good thing we'd hooked up the GPS; if we hadn't, I would probably have headed to Myrtle Beach and then driven south from there (since that's where Guy always flies into). But Guy's Dad actually lives in Garden City, which is north of Murrell's Inlet and a good deal south of Myrtle Beach. So the GPS gave me a more direct route. Following the GPS directions, with some additional info from Guy, whom we'd talked to on the way, we were able to navigate to his Dad's house, which is in a neighborhood of now-permanent mobile homes.

The neighborhood Guy's Dad lives in is quite nice for what was originally a mobile home park. Most of the houses were two homes put together, so the appearance now is of tree-shaded streets and small bungalows.

When we arrived at the house, Guy was on his way home from Waccamaw Hospital where his dad has been since he fell, so we had to wait a few minutes for him to arrive. With his dad in the hospital, Guy had us stay with him; he took his dad's room and we took the second bedroom. I thought the house very nice- particularly for a retired single person. Zack liked it, too. Guy told us that if his dad had been there, irascible as he is, he wouldn't want guests, much less a cat. But with him gone it was all OK.

We had a chance to do some "catching-up" that Saturday afternoon with Guy, learning about all the difficulties his dad was having in the hospital. Guy was beginning to think that his dad wouldn't be coming back to the house, but would have to move to some sort of assisted-living facility (and, as it turned out, he was right). But at this point, things were still in flux.

We spent the afternoon with Guy, took him to a seafood restaurant down the coast for supper, and then returned to the house to talk more. We made some plans for Sunday. Guy wanted to see his dad in the morning at the hospital, but wanted to go with us to Brookgreen Gardens- located about six miles south of where his dad lives and only a mile or so south of the hospital.

Sunday at Brookgreen Gardens

When Guy returned from the hospital, the three of us walked through the neighborhood down to Business US 17 where there was a diner that Guy had eaten at before. There, we had breakfast before driving down to Brookgreen Gardens.

An Aerial View of the Entry to Brookgreen

Brookgreen Gardens is a sculpture garden and wildlife preserve. The 9,100-acre property includes several themed gardens with American figurative sculptures placed in them, the Lowcountry Zoo, and trails through several ecosystems in nature reserves on the property. Brookgreen Gardens was opened in 1932, and is built on four former rice plantations, taking its name from the former Brookgreen Plantation.

The entrance to Brookgreen Gardens is about a mile south of where the "civilization" of Murrell's Inlet ends. When we got to the entrance, we were treated to the first of many sculptures that we would see today; this one was entitled "Fighting Stallions", by Anna Hyatt Huntington.

The sculpture, done in 1950, shows two horses rearing on their hind legs to strike each other with their front hooves and bite. One has sunk his teeth into the neck of the other, and that horse has thrown back its head in pain. The sculpture is very vibrant and realistic; muscles are taut in the struggle and the horse's manes and tails are disorderd in the combat. Each horse has a nude rider; one clings desperately to his stallion's back, while the other, thrown to the ground, tries to protect himself with his upthrown arm.

The entire sculpture is atop a round pedestal in the midst of the entry fountain. This sculpture was quite an introduction to the Gardens!

We drove in, and found that Guy had already purchased multi-day tickets for the three of us. We planned to all three return on Monday as well- pending Guy's need to be at the hospital to help coordinate his father's care.

At the Visitor Pavilion

Passing through the entrance station, it is a long drive through a rather sparse pine forest to the center of what used to be the Brookgreen Plantation. The road wound through some ponds and open areas, and we could see sculpture scattered around.

We followed the signs to the main parking area, thinking that a stop at the Visitor Center was called for. Guy said there were Garden maps there, and he recalled a short movie presentation we could watch on the history and current state of the Gardens.

No sooner had we parked the car, that we began to learn of the history of Brookgreen plantation. It actually began with the history of The Oaks plantation which was adjacent to it. That plantation was the property of William Alston (more in a minute), and was inherited by Joseph Alston. As that sign indicated, in 1801 he married Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr (arguably one of history's two most famous duellists). We also learned that Joseph Alston's sister was the wife of the owner of Brookgreen plantation- this from a sign about the 1791 visit here by President George Washington.

We walked over to the Welcome Center and museum and went in to watch the interesting video about the history of Brookgreen Plantation. This area was originally four rice plantations. The plantations from south to north were The Oaks, Brookgreen, Springfield, and Laurel Hill. The earliest known date on which the area was settled was the mid-1700s, when William Allston developed a rice plantation along the banks of the Waccamaw River. Shortly after the plantation was established, he built the first house on the property and in the area. Through family ties, the Alstons also owned The Oaks. In 1825, a landowner named Joshua John Ward acquired Brookgreen and parts of two other plantations. He was America's largest slaveowner, and ran the rice plantation up until the Civil War. After the conflict, the plantation was sold to Dr. Louis C. Hassell; eventually, Dr. Hassell's brother-in-law and wife become the owners.

Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington of Connecticut first visited the property in 1929. Because they were captivated by the beauty of it, they purchased nearly 9,100 acres of forest, swamp, rice fields and beachfront- all of the original four plantations. They intended to establish a winter home on the Atlantic, but Anna saw the potential of the property and they quickly began to develop her vision of making it the showcase for her sculptures. Archer was the stepson of philanthropist Collis Huntington, and he and Anna continued that philanthropy by eventually donating Brookgreen, now called Brookgreen Gardens, to the State of South Carolina to become the country's first public sculpture garden. It currently has the largest collection of figurative sculpture by American artists in an outdoor setting in the world.

Brookgreen is also a nature and historical preserve with a small zoo and a nature exhibition center.

Only a handful of relics survive of the former plantations. The Alston (or Allston) cemetery survives on the grounds of The Oaks plantation- about a mile from the Visitor Center. Gov. James Alston and his child are buried there. In the same graveyard is a memorial to the governor's wife Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Vice President Aaron Burr, who was lost at sea. Her ghost reportedly haunts the Grand Strand, looking for her father. The rice mill at Laurel Hill is one other remnant of the original plantations.

After we'd obtained our garden maps, we headed down through the beautiful brick arbor towards the Gift Shop and the beginning of the maze of walkways through the various areas of the garden.

An Orientation to Brookgreen Gardens

I'd like for you to be able to follow us through the gardens today, even though the exact path we took to see most of the sculptures and garden features is not really all that important. But following us along will keep this from being just a catalog of the various sculptures, large and small, that are scattered throughout the garden.

To facilitate this I've borrowed one diagram from our brochure and created another from a 45° aerial view of the gardens. For the diagram, I am just going to put it in a scrollable window for you to look at as you wish. That scrollable window is below:

This diagram is informative, and it is what we used to find our way around the gardens.

But since returning to this window to see where we are is a bit of a hassle, I am going to mark our path and the major garden features on the aerial view, and put it in its own little window. You can open that window by clicking on the button at left. Then you can use the scrollable map to follow us around the gardens. You can actually see some of the larger sculptures in the aerial view.

And one other thing. We saw a great many sculptures not visible on the aerial view or shown specifically on the diagram above. We photographed many of them. If there was a descriptive sign near the sculpture, we usually photographed that, too. Instead of transcribing the information from the signs into this narrative, where there is a descriptive sign that you can read you will see the word "SIGN"; this will appear either under a thumbnail or adjacent to a link. The link or thumbnail will show you a large view of the sculpture and if you click on the word "SIGN", you'll be able to read the sign adjacent to it. And also to make things easier, I will put the names of sculpture pieces or artwork in bold italics when I used them in the narrative.

The Circle of Life

Let's begin here at the gift shop to tour through Brookgreen Gardens.

"Pledge Allegiance"

Just outside and to the west of the Gift Shop was a large, multi-piece sculpture called Pledge Allegiance. It was one of a number of multi-piece sculptures that we would see in the Gardens. You can read its descriptive sign here.

Nearby, as we turned the corner to walk along the northwest side of the Gift Shop was a two-piece installation by Dan Ostermiller called Peacocks. (SIGN) Continuing towards the Rainey Sculpture Pavilion, we passed by a small garden called "Anne's Garden." It was a small, square area in a thicket of bushes that had a bench and a single sculpture called Young America. (SIGN) We continued to follow the brick pathway around and as we headed towards the Sculpture Pavilion, passed another installation.

This sculpture reminded me of some of those we saw in Santa Fe- lifesize bronze human forms. This one, of a seated man reading a newspaper, was entitled Len Ganeway. (SIGN)

The Rainey Sculpture Pavilion was built in 1968 as the Visitors Pavilion, but today showcases up to seven temporary indoor exhibits in two galleries each year. It was not open, so we continued through its open breezeway to a small square garden where we found an installation called The Circle of Life. The sculptor was Tuck Langland, and the four dancing figures- two male and two female- each represent a different ethnicity and point in the circle of life. The first, an African woman, symbolizes the beginning of life. The second dancer takes the form of a European man and represents maturity. Third is the Indian sculpture of transformation, representing death. Finally, the Native American figure represents dormancy before the cycle begins again. Use the clickable thumbnails below to have a look at the four sculptures that form The Circle of Life:

"Beginning"       "Maturity"     "Transformation"   "Dormancy"

Through the Live Oak Alleé

From The Circle of Life we turned westward along the brick pathway. This brought us past the Lions by Anna Hyatt Huntington. (SIGN) When we got close to them, we could get better pictures, such as this closer view of one of the lion sculptures. From just beyond the sculptures, Fred got a nice view of one of the lions as he looked back the way we'd come.

"Diana of the Chase"

At the end of the walkway past the Lions, we came to a round pool, and in the center is the work entitled Diana of the Chase (SIGN) by Anna Hyatt Huntington. One of Anna Hyatt Huntington's most popular sculptures, this work received the Saltus Award for Merit from the National Academy of Design in 1922.

The pool itself was shaded on two side by huge live oaks- part of the stand of trees that form the Live Oak Alleé. The entrance to the Alleé was on the far side of the pool, and atop both ends of the brick wall through which we walked was a Griffin by Paul Howard Manship. (SIGN)

The Live Oak Alleé

The Live Oak Alleé is located in the center of the sculpture garden, this beautiful avenue of oak trees once lined the main entrance to Brookgreen Plantation, and in the first incarnation of the gardens in the 1930s, the Alleé also marked the entrance to the gardens. The gardens, of course, have expanded a great deal, and moved southeastward where the new Visitor Center was built.

The live oak trees' graceful branches (Fred took two really nice pictures of them that you can see here and here) host two local epiphyte plants- Spanish moss and resurrection fern. (SIGN) You can see both clearly in the first of Fred's pictures.

Just inside the wall of the Alleé, there was a rectangular pool off to our right, and there we found a sculpture entitled Narcissus by Adolph Alexander Weinman. (SIGN) Near that sculpture but off to the side along the outer wall of the Alleé there was a stone tablet with a rather odd poem called "The Birds Sing." You should read it here.

The Alleé actually ran through the center of a rectangular walled garden, and there were a number of sculptures located around the walkway that ran alongside those walls. I made a complete circuit of the walkway so I could see all the sculptures. You can use the clickable thumbnails below to see pictures of the individual sculptures, and you can use the "SIGN" link below a picture to read the descriptive sign for it:

Gretchen's Garden and Dionysus

The next part of our walk was the short distance northwest of the Live Oak Alleé, through an area called "Gretchen's Garden," past one of the garden's major sculptures and then over to the Brown Sculpture Court.

"Dionysus"

"Gretchen's Garden" was an open area near the Alleé that hosted two bronze sculptures that we stopped to photograph. One was a sculpture done in 1915 by Rudulph Evans and entitled Athlete. It is a muscular, nude male figure with a spear. Nearby there was another sculpture of a big cat- this one entitled Black Panther, sculpted by Wheeler Williams. The panther is advancing in long strides, ears laid back.

"Gretchen's Garden" is also right next to a small area called "the Children's Peace Garden." It looked as if the walkway through it would take us around some things we wanted to see, so we didn't follow it. There was a sculpture quite close to the pathway that we were on, though. That sculpture was entitled Sunflowers and the artist was Charles Cropper Parks. It depicts a long-haired girl in a short dress playing a flute; she is seated on a gigantic sunflower flanked by two smaller flowers with foliage.

The centerpiece of this part of the garden was the major sculpture entitled Dionysus by Edward McCartan. (SIGN) This sculpture was placed in what was the center of the sculpture gardens in 1938; the glittering focal point is of cast bronze covered with hand-applied gold leaf. You can see a large picture of this sculpture at left.

Dionysus, crowned with ivy, stands nonchalantly, one knee sharply bent, hand on hips. He hold a thrysus over the head of a panther which curls behind his legs. A piece of fabric is draped over his left wrist and thigh. This group, originally designed in 1923, was enlarged and remodeled for Brookgreen in 1936. The classic harmony of this figure is enlivened by the rhythmic curves of composition with its finely curved balance of line.

The Brown Sculpture Court

Originally the overseer's house from Brookgreen Plantation, the entrance to this structure served as a home for the caretaker in the 1920s. It was reconstructed in the 1930s to exhibit small sculpture in an outdoor environment and was renovated in the 1990s.

In the Brown Sculpture Court

From Dionysus we turned northeast to follow the walkway towards the Sculpture Court. We passed a whimsical sculpture entitled Sundial by Brenda Putnam. (SIGN)

The sculpture court was a long, narrow building, open in the center with open-air aisles on both sides. Underneath the overhangs covering these aisles a number of small sculptures were on display- too many to try to catalog. One of the best was a bronze pair called Rearing Horses by MacMonnies. (SIGN) You can see a close-up of one of the pair here. Below are clickable thumbnails for some view of the other small sculptures on display:

In the center was a long, thin pool, and the pool contained several sculpture works. The first we encountered was Wings of the Morning by Marshall Maynard Fredericks. The sculpture, which sits on a triangular marble pedestal in the middle of the south pool, shows a group of swans taking flight over an outstretched palm. Inscribed on the pedestal is a quotation from the Book of Psalms: "If I take the wings of th emorning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me."

Another sculpture in the pool was that of a young archer who has apparently just let fly an arrow; you can see that sculpture here. The third sculpture that was placed in the pool was at the north end of the Court; it was entitled Reaching and was created by William EvAngelos Frudakis. It is a bronze sculpture on a stone base (the stone having come from Socastee, South Carolina) that shows the figure of a nude woman leaning out to touch the water. It was a handsome piece, and you can see another view of it here.

Three more interesting pieces were The End of the Trail (James Earl Fraser), The Torchbearer (Anna Hyatt Huntington) and Nebula (Avard Tennyson Fairbanks).

The Poetry Garden and the Garden Wall

Our next bit of the walk took us through the Poetry Garden (which, when the dogwood are blooming, is usually referred to as the Dogwood Garden) and then to the back side of Brookgreen Gardens where we began walking generally southwest.

The Dogwood Garden

The Dogwood Garden is a square area with five rectangular pools- the central one being also a fountain and the place where we found the sculpture entitled Riders of the Dawn done by Adolph Alexander Weinman. It was sculpted by him in 1940-42 out of Indiana Limestone. (SIGN).

The other pools had smaller sculptures in them. One of them was entitled Pomona, done by Joseph Emile Renier in 1929.

At the northwest corner of the Dogwood garden, we found the the path leading to the Labyrinth- which is outside the Garden itself to the northwest. We knew the Labyrinth was not large, nor really a maze at all, so we skipped it to walk through the Poetry Garden to the back Garden Wall.

One side of the Dogwood/Poetry Garden backs up to the side of the Brown Sculpture Court, and along that wall we found a pair of related sculptures. One, entitled The Centaur Cheiron, was sculpted in 1936 by Anna Hyatt Huntington. The brass sculpture was reminiscent of those by Remington. (SIGN) Huntington's companion piece, A Female Centaur, was also sculpted in brass that same year. (SIGN)

As we walked southwest along the back wall, we saw there was an area of the garden we missed, so we went to wander through it. If you take a look at the Gardens diagram above, you'll see that the walkways in this area of the garden form the shape of a butterfly, with the sculpture of Dionysus where the body of the insect would be. The area we were going to walk through would be the upper right wing. (The Children's Garden was in the lower right wing, and so on.)

This section of the garden also backs up to the Brown Sculpture Court, and adjacent to the steps up to an administrative building we found a sculpture entitled Avocet by Elliott Melville Offner (1931-2010). After studying painting at Yale University with Josef Albers and becoming enamored with sculpture during a trip to europe in the 1960s, Elliott Offner initially focused on the human figure in his art. Eventually, an interest in natural history, fossils, and other scientific subjects led him to portray wildlife, especially the fragile beauty of birds. Offner was known for th emeticulous surface treatments of his sculpture. His compositions often emphasized points of tension and balance or launched his subjects into flight.

"Diana"

We photographed five other interesting sculptures in this area of the garden. You can have a look at them and read their informational signs using the links below:

We also saw the Mares of Diomedes by John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculpted in 1904 (SIGN). If that name is familiar, it should be. He is more famous for another sculpture that the created. That sculpture, which you have undoubtedly seen either in person or in pictures, is somewhat larger than this one. If you need another hint, that larger sculpture (actually a mock-up of it) was used in Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." That's right; the sculptor of the Mares of Diomedes was also the sculptor of Mt. Rushmore.

Towards the end of the walk along the Garden Wall where the trees were in bloom, we came to the pool and fountain near Dionysus- the Rosen Carolina Terrace. Here there was a large oval pool, and against one side of it was the sculpture called Alligator Bender by Nathaniel Choate, sculpted our of Italian marble in 1937 (SIGN). The fountain where this sculpture is located occupies the site of the original plantation house which burned in 1901. A subsequent modern structure replaced it, but that structure has been removed, and this large pool now serves as the reservoir for water that is distributed to all points within the garden.

On either short side of the oval fountain there are matching sculptures- Boy with Dolphin and Girl with Dolphin, both by Milton Horn and sculpted in limestone in 1929 (SIGN).

(Mouseover Image if Video Controls Not Visible) Rosen Carolina Terrace

I made a movie here at the terrace near the pool, and you can watch it with the player at right.

Near where I was making my movie there were two other sculptures of note. One was called Diana by Gleb W. Derujunsky, sculpted around 1925 (SIGN). The other was named Joy, and is a work by Karl Heinrich Gruppe. He did the sculpture in 1925.

Caroline's Garden

From the Rosen Carolina Terrace we walked over to the west end of an area known as "Caroline's Garden." Here we found a huge sculpture in the middle of a rectangular pool. The sculpture is entitled Pegasus, and was sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser over a period of nine years (SIGN). It was truly monumental, and was, indeed, the largest sculpture at Brookgreen.

"Diana"

Walking southeast from Pegasus, we eventually came to another circular pool- this one with an active fountain. In the middle, on a tall pedestal, was yet another sculpture entitled Diana. This one was created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1893, and shows the nude Diana in her iconic hunting pose (Diana was, of course, the Goddess of the Hunt). Fred took a very nice close-up of the statue at the top of the pedestal, and you can see it here.

I also made a movie of the fountain and the statue and Fred and Guy and while it is not all that great a movie, you can watch it with the player below:

(Mouseover Image if Video Controls Not Visible) "Diana" and Fountain

Just east of Diana was another rectangular pool, this one called the Fountain of the Muses.

"The Muses"

This pool and fountain (the fountains were off) hosts the large group sculpture entitled Fountain of the Muses. The sculpture, which consists of a number of individual elements, was created by Carl Milles between 1949 and 1954. This sculpture is a great example of Milles' use of water in relation to sculpture as it depicts the Greek myth of the water source that inspired creativity. The five figures represent the muses of Sculpture, Poetry, Architecture, Painting and Music. Fred took a nice picture of Guy and myself with the Fountain of the Muses, and you can see it here.

Looking at the sculpture from the back we can see more of the sculptural elements; the Muses are dancing on the heads of leaping dolphins, and ahead of them are a group of fish. At the end of the fountain are three pedestals, each with a different sculpture atop it. The central one has a female figure, and the pedestals on either side have a centaur and faun. Each pedestal has a fountain nozzle coming out, and each nozzle has a different sculpted figure on top of it. On the nozzle below the female figure there is a sculpted horse, and the other two have a boar and a wolf.

The Palmetto Garden

For the next section of our walk, we'll tour the Palmetto Garden and its two pools- each of which has a major sculpture in it. First, we circled around a bit closer to the Gift Shop to find the small round pool that contains the sculpture entitled The Visionaries, created in 1954 and donated to the Gardens by Anna Hyatt Huntington. This work was meant to commemorate the founders of Brookgreen Gardens. The figures in the composition are allegorical and are clothed in classical garments since they are not portraits of the founders. Nearby, in a shaded area near the Rainey Sculpture Pavilion, was another piece entitled Flying Wild Geese by Marshall Maynard Fredericks. It shows two wild geese rising into flight, and was created in bronze with a green patina. It was acquired in 1980.

"Samson and the Lion"

From the pool where The Visionaries was located, we could look westward into the Palmetto Garden, whose large rectangular pool is its central feature. And the central feature of this pool is the sculpture entitled Samson and the Lion by Gleb W. Derujunsky, sculpted in limestone in 1949 (SIGN).

The Palmetto Garden and its pool are surrounded by a low brick wall, and along this wall on both sides, and scattered on the open lawn around the pool, were a number of interesting sculptures. Below is a list of the ones we photographed; click on a name in the list to see our picture of the sculpture. (And if you want to read its informational sign, click the "SIGN" link beside its name.)

The Old Kitchen and Garden

It was getting on past lunchtime, so we thought that as long as we were close, we would stop to have sandwich, soup and a drink at The Old Kitchen. It is located west of the Live Oak Allee, between the Offner Sculpture Center and the Brown Sculpture Court. We found that they offered desserts, beverages, deli-wraps and soup. The three of us each got a snack and sat outside on the Old Kitchen Porch under giant magnolia trees and within hearing distance of the Old Kitchen Fountain.

(Mouseover Image if Video Controls Not Visible) "Peace Fountain"

As we came around to the entrance to the little cafe, we passed by a small fountain with an intricate sculpture in its center. The fountain itself is in the Peace Garden, more commonly known as the Old Kitchen Garden. The sculpture and the fountain are a single work entitled Peace Fountain; it was sculpted and created for Brookgreen Gardens in 1996 by Sandy Scott. You can use the player at left to watch the movie I made of it.

The garden adjacent to the Old Kitchen had a number of interesting sculptures, and we had a chance to wander around and look at some of them while we were waiting for our lunch. Below is a list of the ones we photographed; click on a name in the list to see our picture of the sculpture. (And if you want to read its informational sign, click the "SIGN" link beside its name.)

The Children's Garden

From the Old Kitchen, we crossed over our path from earlier to explore the Children's Garden, which is an area just to the southeast of the Brown Sculpture Court.

In the Children's Garden

This small area was shady and inviting, and a pleasure to walk through. The sculptures all appealed to children, and we photographed many of them. To see a picture of any of them, click on its name in the list below; to read its sign, click on that link (if one is available):

Returning Through the Magnolia Garden

It was getting late when we came out of the Children's Garden, and although there was still a lot of the Gardens still to see, we just wouldn't have time to get to it all today. So we headed along the walkway south of the pond that is the center of the Magnolia Garden, going back towards the Rainey Pavilion and the Gift Shop. Reaching the pond from the Children's Garden, Fred made a panorama of it looking southeast; that panorama is below:

The Pond in the Magnolia Garden

Walking along beside the pond, there were a number of sculptures on our right, underneath the overhanging trees. If you would like to see some of them, click on the sculpture's name in the list below, and if you want to read its informational sign, you can click on that link, too:

Before we headed back to the car and home, I paused at the east end of the pond to try my own panorama. It is below:

The Magnolia Garden Pond

We left the Gardens and returned home via the Waccamaw Medical Center so Guy could check on his father. Then, after a bit of shopping, we had a pleasant dinner at a local restaurant, and then watched some videos at home with Guy.

You can use the links below to continue to another photo album page.

	January 21, 2013: Brookgreen Gardens (Day Two)
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