Faces at Bedrock Gardens

Hi everyone. Happy Friday to you.

Today I have some face photos taken last week on a trip to my local botanical garden. I'm linking them up to Nicole's Friday Face Off  and also to Gillena's Friday Lunch Break. Hope you enjoy these photos.

My local botanical garden is called Bedrock Gardens.  Originally they were  the private yard of an artist and her husband.  The couple then decided to share their gardens with everyone, and that is how Bedrock Gardens came to be. This artist  is still creating new sculptures for the garden, and a lot of it is just plain fun.

This sculpture is headless but it certainly looks like the garden monster to me.

And this little piece is a new one in a series of industrial people.

Of course in a garden nature is number one. These little tree swallows were fledging the nest, one by one. We spent a lot of time watching them.

And here's mom (or dad) on top of the birdhouse. They would fly in with a bit of food to entice the babies out.

This guy on top of the birdhouse tried to get out of the nest and landed on the ground. We let him be  and watched him stretch his wings and hop around. He managed to hop out onto the dirt track where people walk. Then something terrible made all 3 of us take a deep breath. A golf cart full of garden supplies driven by one of the workers came down the path towards us and the fledgling.  The three of us audibly gasp at the same time. Luckily the golf cart turned off before it came to us, but we decided that if we walked away and left this guy on the ground something bad was bound to happen. We used the map one of my friends was carrying to lift him onto the top of the birdhouse. 

We then decided we could do no more, and we didn't want to be heart broken by anything happening to this baby, so we walked away and left the fledglings and their parents in peace to do what they've evolved to do. I hope he is now flying and swooping through the clouds.

 And back to the sculptures in the garden, this  family sculpture was another new one to me. 

The dog was pretty cute.

And the little child certainly has an expression of not being an easy kid. But he does love his Mom, as you can see if you open up his chest.

Either the child is wearing Mom out, or she is rather a tough lady.

Dad's pretty funny too.

Dad's chest didn't open but Mom's did. Smile.

And how about a face in the tree?

And finally for today, here's a couple of artist imagined insects (or maybe it's better to say Arthropods than insects) in another part of the garden.

That's all for me today. Hope you're having a great Friday and have a nice weekend too.