Yu Garden

This huge stone greets you when you enter the YuYuan Garden, which is primarily a rockery garden built in the mid-1500's by a noble Chinese man for his parents. This stone was added as a sign for visitors like us.

I'm hoping my kids will read this and save money to build us a nice retirement place too - but only when I get OLD!



This is the main entrance, and it's ornate gate and courtyard was a place to welcome visitors. When I was a kid, my family's friends would all use the backdoor. I can still hear the long spring making a "creaking" noise as the screen door would open, the inner door next, and then a voice, "Hey, Cole's, got the coffee pot on?" And of course we had the coffee pot on. I learned to drink it in Kindergarten, and make it when I was eight or nine.

This is a beautiful place to think. The rest. To take in the beauty. That's exactly what this nobleman wanted for his parents. Th older I get, the more I am wanting that myself. A place of quiet in a world with very little quiet left. A place where I can meet with the King of Kings and share my heart - and listen for His.