As part of my birthday celebration month, my husband and I visited the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park, it was so cool!
The Japanese Friendship Garden (JFG) is an expression of friendship between San Diego and its sister city, Yokohama. Twelve acres of winding pathways, the grounds are designed around many water features filled with colorful koi and water lilies. There is a bonsai garden, statues and sculptures are scattered about lovely meditation areas. We also really enjoyed the Maneki Neko beckoning cats exhibition on display through November 2020.
It was a lovely peaceful way to spend the day with my love! I hope you enjoy the photos!
Tiffany Arp-Daleo Artwork 
Happy birthday month, Tiffany! What a great way to celebrate! Bet you found some interesting patterns of colors and light while you were there too! 😊
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Thanks, Adan, it was a wonderful way to spend the day! Likewise to you my fellow Libra, it’s a big birthday for both of us this year! I hope you are also celebrating all month long!
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I’m definitely trying, lol! ❤️
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Oh what a beautiful place. 😃👍
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It was so peaceful and beautiful, a must-see if you ever visit San Diego!
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Happy b day month 🐼✌️
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Thanks so much!!🎊🎉
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Beautiful, serene and tranquil place to restore and recharge oneself.
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What a beautiful way to spend a day! Happy birthday month!!
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Thanks a bunch, Michelle! I plan to make the best of it!
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Looks like a great place to experience 😎 and cool T-shirt! Happy birthday month 🙂
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Thanks so much, Phil! I had to go look back, ah-ha, the Dead shirt, I love that one too!
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Beautiful! Would love to see more pictures of this park!
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Oh, I will definitely be going back, perhaps not till Spring when there are more flowers in bloom, it was impressive!
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Happy birthday month to you! 🥳
Your beautiful shots remind me of the Japanese garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
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Thank you Gia! It’s been a great birthday month, trying to squeeze all I can out of it!
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Happy Belated Birthday.
A birthday well spent. 🤗
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Thank you so very much, Kavitha, it’s so sweet of you!
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Happy Birthday and thanks for sharing your beautiful photos.
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Thank you so much, Geri, I will hop on over and check out your blog!
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You do not have too, but thank you for doing it.
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A beautiful location. I would love to visit.
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I can recommend you visit Balboa Park in general, John, you could spend hours or days, bring the family!😊
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One day I can dear Tiffany. I have a brother who owned property in San Diego.
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Great pictures! I first visited the Japanese Garden @ Balboa Park in 2015, returned in autumn 2018. It is a lovely place to visit, and I was impressed with the attention and care staff gives the plants. I;ve visited many gardens throughout the world and this one will age beautifully.
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Thank you so much for visiting and for your comment! Yes, it has already matured in a short time, I hope you come back soon and compare how it has changed!
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I am sorry I missed this post. What a beautiful place. Your photographs are lovely. How fun and happy belated birthday. What an interesting unity and such a beautiful way to express it with this gorgeous garden. I love statues. Thank you for sharing your day with us Tiffany in the Japanese Friendship Garden. Love and hugs. 🤗💕❤️🦋Joni
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Thanks so much, Joni! I look forward to going back in the Spring when there are more flowers in bloom, the grounds are quite impressive!
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It looked like the perfect outing to celebrate, and I loved your photographs, you have quite the eye there my friend. Not only an artist with paints but with photography too. Multi-talented you are my friend. Be safe and you and that sweetie of yours take good care of one another. Love Joni
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Thank you, my dear! I really enjoy photography as well as painting, my second favorite medium! 😉
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Well you have a real eye for photography. I really love photography as well but just literally ran out of my useable photography. I really enjoyed this post. I am glad you also are blessed with a loving partner. I feel so badly for people all alone right now. Sending you lots of love, blessings and some little hugs from the fairies that live here. Love you bunches. 🤗💕❤️🦋Joni
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Thanks for the nice pictures! I just stumbled across your blog post. The weather here in Germany is quite grey these days – so it was a pleasure to see some sunny Japanese garden impressions! 🙂
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Thank you for visiting my site, I am so happy to bring a little sunshine to you in Germany! 🌞😊
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