Today the rain was mostly in the morning so we were able to head up the hill to the Botanical Gardens right after lunch. Lucky for us an artist couple, Tara and Sylvain Bongard, were setting out 50 of their pottery pieces within the garden. We passed the couple as they were working and we were wandering. Later as we were leaving we saw the wife and spoke with her for a while. They have a studio in the south of Portugal with a sculpture garden and they are very excited to have their work in Lisbon. We liked it too. The garden was just 220 meters from our place but up some stairs and over a few blocks. A great place for an afternoon stroll even if it did rain a bit on us.
Stay tuned as the Gin Lovers Bar and restaurant is located in this building. We will be going there soon
The buildings that have been renovated are exquisite
In the garden with cactus and palms to spare
Not so many blooms in these gardens
Dodo in clay
A perfect place for this owl
A picnic for the ants
What an amazing contrast
Big bamboo
Ceramic chestnuts!
Cry baby cry
Pumpkin art
Suggestive mushrooms
Hey hey vajayjay
I spy a pretty flower of a girl
Muses in thew trees
A grand frog
The frog Prince
No crown on this one
Spoiler alert.... he stayed a frog
I did not know that this was an Octopus Garden
Now I an getting hungry
Boil some water
I have to "hand" it to the artists
Tall trees abound
Mossy trees
flowers poking up through the pine needles
Red fish orange fish
Top fish bottom fish
A burst of green
towering trunks
A fish out of water
Both in water and out at the same time
So many oieces of art
This little piggie
Very cute
Chameleon
Chicken Train, running all day
An observatory
But not operational
In the classic gardens there were more blooms
Little micro blooms in the center
An "Old German Owl" Pigeon
