Seattle Chinese Garden Part Three: The Outskirts

On the outskirts of the Seattle Chinese Garden are meadows and small hills to wander through. 

At one point we found a dried up marshy piece of mud that was optimistically named 'Mirror Lake.' The murky sludge did not resemble a mirror, nor did the shallow puddle resemble a lake. But I can't help but to appreciate the rosy-tinted glasses that the namer of this lake was surely wearing.

We found some mysterious fur shedded upon the grassy ground. Could it be big foot fur? We are in the Pacific Northwest after all. One third of Bigfoot spottings are in the Pacific Northwest. Maybe one lumbered down from the forested mountain tops nearby, ready for city life, only to be afraid of the hustle and bustle and the discrimination surely to come their way, so instead, they found a cozy nature spot in the Seattle Chinese Garden.

While we were walking through the grassy meadows, we came upon a dog walking with his human. He was an old hound dog with ears dragging in the grass and nose sniffing the wet soil. He didn't have any eyes, just fur and skin where his eyes would normally be. He's a hound dog though, he is connected to his nose more than even the average dog. Dog's super power is basically their sense of smell, so he may not have had a world of sight, but he had a deeper world of smell. I would love to be able to smell like a dog for just an hour, just to see what it is like. It would be like seeing colors we never knew existed before. It'd be a whole knew way to interpret this crazy world we live in.

Being submerged in such a controlled natural environment of the garden grounds and then emerging into more unkempt wild is a nice contrast. There is something to appreciate in both. Seeing the overgrown grasses and thickets of wild plants make me admire the gardeners of the world even more!