This garden in my neighborhood is kind of everyone's back yard. And so all manner of things end up in it. I liked the juxtaposition of the spider and the fish in the picture above, but the real reason I stopped was to get the stuffed tiger in the gazebo:



A closer look:

We're on our third day of grey, wet weather here. Some brightly colored things as a pick-me-up:



Found these in Brooklyn on my way to a lunch date. It was ungodly hot outside and I was hiding from the daystar in a convenient foyer.



From my local garden, aka Convent Garden. There are all kinds of statues and figurines and bird baths and stuff in this garden, it is like the backyard for the entire neighborhood and everyone has just one thing they want to put out. I just liked the juxtaposition of ivy and Pietà.

A little further uptown, there's the (one of) the gardens at The Cloisters, as of early July:



And finally, some daffodils, found near the train station in Providence, Rhode Island in early August: