This next picture shows the subway station behind the sundial. I like this park because there is a lot of sculpture. You can see another piece, a black sphere on a gray base, next to the tree which is just past the sundial.
A little bit further on, you will find this piece. The woman is biting a large leaf, while the goat is jumping toward her hand, which may or may not be holding something.
Although we always walk on the main path, which is paved or covered with crushed stone, there are side paths that just go off into the woods. A couple of years ago I followed one of them and got lost, completely disoriented (pun intended). I spent about 40 minutes wandering around in an area that was only a couple of acres. The problem was that it was all steep ups and downs where the low areas were all aligned in different directions and the canopy of leaves blocked the sun.
At the south end of the valley there are a few very small pools. We discovered that a turtle was living in this one. You can barely see it in the bottom center of the picture. The water actually has that gray color that we assume comes from a suspension of clay particles that wash down from the hills.
The next pool has a little waterwheel (center) that allows water from the third pool to enter. These pools are a firefly preserve, making them quite popular during the mating season (of both the fireflies and the young couples watching them).
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