Fall has arrived at Highfield with the cool evening temperatures.  We're celebrating with our Fall Open House and Autumnal Equinox Celebration. Lots going on!

The opening of Portals and Passageways was last Sunday and we've been crammed with things to do since then.  So I'll be reporting on how it all went in the next blogs.  However, I wanted to start this detail by showing you Sarah Peters final work! You saw her working it through over the past weeks, and the end result was just spectacular.  She was very happy with the end result of all her thinking, site selection, sorting out of gravel, dying of silk - process, process! Congratulations Sarah on your Water Study in white pine and silk.

Today I am thinking back to this moment in late April when we installed The Spirits of the Garden in the Sunken Garden.  It took the four of us - and probably there should have been 6 of us and a bucket loader (!) to get the top piece on.  There were a few moments there, like this one, when I wasn't sure which direction the top was going!

Matt Inman was really working hard today to complete his log portal.  Later in the day, the sun shone down and one might think that God approved!