As the sounds of taiko and fue — traditional Japanese drums and flute — began to fill the Miller Living Room gathering space at the Portland Japanese Garden on Sunday, a crowd squeezed in ...
Hannah Wallace If you need an escape from urban landscapes, seek out Zen-like tranquility at the Japanese Garden within Washington Park. The 12-acre Portland Japanese Garden is made up of eight ...
Kokedama is a unique form of Japanese bonsai that features a living ... creating a string garden with more than more kokedama. These beautiful, natural planters make a great gift or can add ...
Lunar New Year, the 51st annual Rockford Boat, Vacation and Fishing Show and Rockford Ale Fest, along with fundraisers, live ...
Feedback also revealed a top reason people come to the park district is to improve their mental health and self-care. “People ...
A Rockford software engineer will challenge Ald. Mark Bonne as he seeks election to a second term representing the 14 th Ward in southeast Rockford. Bonne said his background as a tenacious former ...
Rockford native, author, artist, athlete and founder of The Pumpkin Patch in Caledonia, Frank Fiorello died in December at age 78. Fiorello contracted polio in October 1955 at age 8, just weeks ...
He taught me so much," said Lucero Rivas, the victim's niece. Loved ones remember Macias as a hardworking man from the Rockford area who adored his family, horse racing and mowing the grass on his ...
Japanese gardens are considered among the most beautiful in the world. Meditation gardens, also known as Zen gardens, were originally designed by Buddhist monks to be natural spaces of retreat for ...
Zen and the art of garden maintenance: Anderson Japanese Gardens offers a slice of Kyoto in the heart of Rockford. Photo credit: nicole langel Step into Anderson Japanese Gardens, and you’ll swear you ...
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Zen and the art of garden maintenance: Anderson Japanese Gardens offers a slice of Kyoto in the heart of Rockford. Photo credit: nicole langel Forget about that trip to Tokyo you’ve been planning.