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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1908 



The Bridge and Abutments in a Water Park 



Water Parks 



By Charles Downing Lay 



HE salt marshes are one of the most beauti- 

 ful features of our Atlantic Coast. Some- 

 times in their illimitable expanse they 

 suggest the sea, and their changing color 

 in the sun and shade and wind is no less 

 wonderful. They have, moreover, the ad- 

 vantage of being sea and land combined in 

 a fascinating proportion and irregularity. From earliest 

 spring, when the first tinge of green begins to overpower the 

 winter brown, through the deep greens and dull reds of mid- 

 summer, to the golden russets of the fall, they are always 



changing, but always full of charm for those who love them. 

 The thin lines of creeks and the broad pools mirror the sky 

 and are like dull veins of blue in an amber marble. Or again, 

 at sunset when suffused with pink and red, these same pools 

 seem like colored windows letting out the light of the earth's 

 smoldering fires below. 



Nowhere else, except on the sea, can one so enjoy the sky, 

 from the lowest purple haze of the horizon to the white 

 zenith, and nowhere else can one see so many of the stars. 

 They seem to come down close and they shine with a new 

 brightness, in a night that is no longer dark. 



A Waterway Decorated with Evergreens 



