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Beach Way

     The beach environment is starkly different from the mountain surroundings I am used to.  No hills on the horizon.  The ocean runs open and flat and expansive.  Way is vast:

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       Click on the picture for a larger view.

       There was one promontory,the Gay Head cliffs, which local naturalists tell us were pushed up by the very edge of the great glaciers of the ice age:

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     An island, Chappaquiddick, just off the island of Martha’s Vineyard, was home to a Japanese-style garden, the Mytoi garden.  Here, then, are some shots of Way, as expressed through Japanese gardening techniques on the Northeast coast of the US:

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    Dave Martin

    The Mytoi Garden looks good. Much looser and less-maintained than traditional Japanese gardens, but making good use of nearby tall trees and the water. Perhaps a bit like Joan Durante Park in Longboat Key, Florida, where a disturbed shoreline with sand piles and Australian pines was cleared and bulldozed into a series of tidal inlets and shallow ponds, with walkways, bridges, and native shoreline plants. My first impression of it was that the style was in the Olmstead spirit. But perhaps Japanese stroll garden, too. And it’s Floridian, in the way that Mytoi is of Martha’s Vinyard.
    http://www.longboatkey.org/

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