Grace Peer kept working while we talked. She was soaking newspapers in buckets of water and placing them on dry beds and then piling huge mounds of mulch on top. "Some people use cardboard," she explained, "but the crows love to eat the cardboard and that destroys all our hard work...we learned that in the Welcome Garden." Never knew crows preferred chomping cardboard over chewing on the news.
Grace, a junior at Holy Names Academy in Seattle, is an intern from Teens in Public Service (TIPS). TIPS employs teenagers in community service during the summer to work in non-profit organizations across the Puget Sound area. The Seattle Chinese Garden was extremely grateful to have Grace working for garden manager Amy Converse. "She has been working 20 hours a week and has been a wonderful asset to the Garden. There is no way it would look as good as it does without her and our other volunteer," said Amy. While we have all been enjoying these idyllic days of summer, Grace and volunteer Kay Dien Fox have been mulching and weeding and raking and planting - the back-breaking work of gardening that intensifies in the heat of our unusually hot summer.
Please check out the most amazing photographs from Aurora Santiago on her Flickr website. She is currently taking Ray Pfortner's photography workshop which finishes up this week.
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| Grace Peer from TIPS |
Grace, a junior at Holy Names Academy in Seattle, is an intern from Teens in Public Service (TIPS). TIPS employs teenagers in community service during the summer to work in non-profit organizations across the Puget Sound area. The Seattle Chinese Garden was extremely grateful to have Grace working for garden manager Amy Converse. "She has been working 20 hours a week and has been a wonderful asset to the Garden. There is no way it would look as good as it does without her and our other volunteer," said Amy. While we have all been enjoying these idyllic days of summer, Grace and volunteer Kay Dien Fox have been mulching and weeding and raking and planting - the back-breaking work of gardening that intensifies in the heat of our unusually hot summer.
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| The peach tree is flourishing |
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| A window to the Courtyard from Song Mei Ting |
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| Photographer Aurora Santiago capturing Anenomes in the Garden |