Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Warning: MoBot Koi Attempting to Swallow Babies and Small Farm Animals


Just kidding, but you've got to admit, in such a beautiful place, the sight of all those gaping fish mouths is a little incongruent.

Shaw's Garden in STL is one of the most beautiful places on earth. But take a group of little ones, and their favorite thing to do is feed the fish in the Japanese Garden at the far back corner of the Garden.

To get there, they must first walk through Shaw's entire garden wonder. You don't suppose he planned it that way, do you?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You stated:

"To get there, they must first walk through Shaw's entire garden wonder. You don't suppose he planned it that way, do you?"

Who is "He"?

Michael M. said...

Henry Shaw

Anonymous said...

Koi

Rick Bonasch said...

Anony 2:

Thanks! Correction noted.

Joe said...

Don't scare me like that!

I've been afraid of those voracious Koi since I was a little one.

I believe, though, the Japanese Garden (officially titled Seiwa-en) was designed by Dr. Koichi Kawana in the mid-1970s. Before that, I think that corner of the Garden was mostly empty.