January 13, 2024

Chanticleer’s Smash Backyard has a fairy story high quality. It’s not an precise destroy however was in-built 1999 on the location of one of many unique homes on the property. Crops creep up crumbling partitions and emerge from cracked paving, ghostly faces seem in swimming pools of water, and a sarcophagus-like desk hulks within the eating room. It offers me Spirited Away vibes.

That is Half 8 of my go to to Chanticleer through the Philadelphia Space Fling final September.

Let’s begin within the library, which you enter via a large doorway from the Gravel Backyard.

Close to the hearth, agaves adorn the stone wall like inexperienced boutonnieres on a lapel.

Stone books, together with one impressed with acorns, lie open to the weather, ready to be learn.

Moss, one is titled. A leafy face stares up at you.

Masonry, reads one other.

Ex Libris — from whose library, I’m wondering?

Leaves of books, plant leaves, what we go away behind…it’s all getting combined up.

A bucket elevator chain planted with small succulents hangs from a timber submit. Within the nook, a weeping Norway spruce appears to skulk into the room like a inexperienced ghost.

The chain makes an enthralling planter.

Waterfalling vegetation within the little buckets

Fairly Passiflora citrina

Hydrangea in bloom

And now we come to these marble faces within the water.

They don’t look spooky to me. Fairly peaceable, floating there.

The following room is the eating corridor, with a protracted black desk–really a reflective pool–that resembles a elegant coffin.

Query mark paving?

Tillandsias on the mantle

Loree of Hazard Backyard not too long ago wrote that she actively disliked the massive black desk. I really feel extra ambiguous about it. It provides a spookier factor to the destroy, which I respect.

I wish to see water vegetation rising in it.

The open doorways and home windows of the destroy body glimpses of the Gravel Backyard past.

Stone acorns cluster beneath oak saplings.

Outdoors the partitions, the backyard totally takes maintain once more.

Just a few extra ghostly weeping Norway spruces glide via a mini-meadow of prairie dropseed.

And a disembodied face snoozes within the grasses.

Up subsequent: Exploring Bell’s Woodland and alongside Bell’s Run Creek. For a glance again at Chanticleer’s meadowy Gravel Backyard, click on right here:

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