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CTyankee

(68,059 posts) Fri Nov 8, 2013, 04:50 PM Nov 2013

Hello, DU! Your Friday Afternoon Challenge today: “Poetics of Place: the European Gardens of [View all]

pleasure, fantasy and glory!”

Surely you know them.

And, of course, we play fair here...

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Hello, DU! Your Friday Afternoon Challenge today: “Poetics of Place: the European Gardens of [View all] CTyankee Nov 2013 OP

#1 Schoenbrunn, Vienna jberryhill Nov 2013 #1

You're too fast for me, jb (nice chops, btw :) ) pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #8

#3 looks pretty Gaudi-ish blogslut Nov 2013 #2

Yes dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #13

I know 2 for sure CurtEastPoint Nov 2013 #3

yes on 3, no on 5... CTyankee Nov 2013 #7

I'm surprised if #5 isn't what we thought it was. dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #14

my neighbor also said Bath when I emailed the Challenge to him... CTyankee Nov 2013 #16

You are right. I got the wrong image. See below for my abject apology! CTyankee Nov 2013 #22

#2 is fantastic. Kingofalldems Nov 2013 #4

I bet money on #5, but I ended up taking a Bath on that one jberryhill Nov 2013 #5

Of course you missed the bath...you took a showernbrunn. nt pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #9

Bath, shave and a haircut! jberryhill Nov 2013 #10

lol dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #11

I will be doing an American version of this Challenge in a couple of weeks... CTyankee Nov 2013 #17

Fat lot of good that will do me. dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #18

well, you have me this time...I was WRONG on #5, which I have asked forgiveness for... CTyankee Nov 2013 #20

Oh. dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #24

And I thought I had SUCH a nice shot of it! CTyankee Nov 2013 #25

#1 is Vienna, #3 is in Barcelona...forget the name, designed by Gaudi... joeybee12 Nov 2013 #6

I've never studied art and never know the answers, but MerryBlooms Nov 2013 #12

Oh, that's so sweet! Thank you! CTyankee Nov 2013 #15

BIG OOPS on my part. #5 is Bath...I was going for Park Crescent in London and ended up with CTyankee Nov 2013 #19

lol jberryhill Nov 2013 #21

shudda, cudda, wudda... CTyankee Nov 2013 #23

Greatest Page for these gorgeous gardens! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2013 #26

Later I will do one on American gardens...so many wonderful ones...hard to choose... CTyankee Nov 2013 #27

OK, we have #s 2, 4 and 6 outstanding... CTyankee Nov 2013 #28

For #2, I'm figuring the palm tree means Mediterranean, Benton D Struckcheon Nov 2013 #29

wow, those are beautiful! But as you can see, it is not them... CTyankee Nov 2013 #34

that is quite beautiful...it makes me eager to go to the Cote d'Azur... CTyankee Nov 2013 #36

#6: Boboli Gardens in Florence; the painting is 'Boboli' by John Singer Sargent pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #30

I just saw his watercolor collection on exhibit at the MFA in Boston... CTyankee Nov 2013 #33

do you have a guess on #4? CTyankee Nov 2013 #35

#2: Gardens at Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore, Italy pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #31

really fabulous, aren't they? CTyankee Nov 2013 #32

I love the way it's terraced pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #53

I was wondering if you got the fact that it was an island, which is why I wanted the water CTyankee Nov 2013 #55

I didn't think 'island,' I thought it was coastal and used that in a lot of searches, lol pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #56

Yeah, well, I didn't wanna make it TOO easy for you! CTyankee Nov 2013 #57

I've been to #3 .... oldhippie Nov 2013 #37

do you have a guess for #4. CTyankee Nov 2013 #38

It looks like something I saw ..... oldhippie Nov 2013 #39

too far south...think of a haughty queen... CTyankee Nov 2013 #41

I know number five, I've visited it Brother Buzz Nov 2013 #40

This has been guessed. It is Bath. I mistakenly attributed it to Park Crescent in London which CTyankee Nov 2013 #42

Well, a big "duh" on ME, too. Brother Buzz Nov 2013 #43

I was wondering for a minute there..."do they have these crescents everywhere in the UK?" CTyankee Nov 2013 #44

I wonder if it was bombed during the Second World War because it was a crescent... Brother Buzz Nov 2013 #49

The Germans bombed Park Crescent and the one in Bath? CTyankee Nov 2013 #50

The one in Bath was definitely bombed Brother Buzz Nov 2013 #51

I dunno if it was. Maybe, since London took a pretty bad pounding during the blitz... CTyankee Nov 2013 #52

and #4 finally Iterate Nov 2013 #45

My daughter is studying Landscape Design and her project is Petit Trianon... CTyankee Nov 2013 #46

I saw it described as Marie Antoinette's tearoom pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #47

Incredible isn't it? Just mind-boggling... CTyankee Nov 2013 #48

Will do. Iterate Nov 2013 #54