Getting back to the Lee Orient Rock Garden, it was so neat finding it. I was running around trying to find this dude's house and i just happen by this amazing thing. Adale & I visited a grotto built in the 1930's at a Catholic church while we were living in Wisconsin a few years ago that looked very similar, being concrete with broken plates and other colorful things set in the structures. I had the same feeling when I saw both of them - that I wish I had it in me somehow to make something that amazing. The Lee Garden structure was so massive and larger than life - it was a city block long and maybe a city block deep, having a maze of walkways and shrines throughout. The guy who built it had some regular job but spent years building the rock garden. The garden is so big, so complex, so crazy...I wish I had the imagination and ambition to even dream up something a tenth as amazing as the garden. Maybe if I lived in a time before cable tv existed I would have had a chance.
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