Shaw Gardens: Tea Terrace + Cannon

A proper Tea Terrace, below.  Unchanged for a century.  Must I tell you what a Tea Terrace becomes in the evening?  Wine & canapes on the terrace, of course.

When I asked about the cannon, below, Mr. Adams said, It's never been fired.  Where did it come from?  He said, Oh it came from up above.  How did it get up there?  The Spaniards carried it up there, he said.  (You realize he means the Spaniards contemporary with Christopher Columbus.  I hear, George S. Patton, Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of Man.)  FYI, Mick Jagger has a gorgeous estate where the cannon was rescued.    

Mr. Adams, below, of Shaw Gardens.  More than love his job, he loves Shaw Gardens & showing it off.
He said, Take it easy, dozens of times as we traversed steep grades.  Before arriving at the best views he would say, Look where you are going or you will go where you are looking.

Today, mostly, I wanted you to meet Mr. Adams, above.  And know his wisdom, Take it easy.
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Garden & Be Well,     XO Tara
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Cannot imagine the misery of getting that cannon up the volcano !  Worse, the misery of Mr. Adams ancestor at arrival in Jamaica.