Every year during tourist season, the château at Chaumont dedicates garden space to designers of all stripes to construct very creative and unusual garden installations. I'm guessing there are twenty or more installations that interpret the theme for the year. They provoke a very wide range of reactions from the viewers who may find some of the installations weird or intriguing, beautiful or ugly, intelligent or incomprehensible. I generally find them at least interesting if not dazzling.
The photo today is just one example. The designer has placed metal butterflies onto slender rods in such a way as to give the impression that a whole "flock" of them have all decided to fly away together into the woods. Don't ask me why there are small carpets on the ground. See what I mean? Anyway, I find people we know either love this stuff or hate it. In fact, one friend hated it one year but loved it the next.
You can count on seeing more examples on this blog in the future.
De beaux souvenirs pour nous! J'ai de très intéressantes photos de notre passage avec vous à cet évènement annuel lors d'une réunion d'amitié partagée.
ReplyDeleteOui. Je me le souviens bien ! Ahh, les bons moments.
DeleteWhether you love it or hate it, it's worth going! We're hoping to visit during the 15th August weekend. And even if you don't like the exhibits, the rest of the gardens are sumptuous.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right. And the gardens just keep expanding. As soon as I get a car, I'm going to go to the lighted gardens at night. I've heard they're spectacular. Maybe this year!
DeleteI like the butterflies - would love to have a flock of those in my garden
ReplyDeleteDo you have a lot of butterflies in Vegas ?
DeleteVery few - most native plants are pollinated by the wind, with all of the garden flowers brought in there are some butterflies now, but few.
DeleteI was there! I remember this: it was one of my favorites! Hello to Amboiseites from Durhamites.
ReplyDeleteSusan
To all Durhamites, "ya'll come back, heeah ?!"
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