The grounds

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• Outdoor facilitiesA name, and a promise, held in the shade of an old tree.
• Outdoor facilitiesA white cottage, keeping company with the flag and the forest.
• Outdoor facilitiesSteps that ask nothing of you but to arrive.
• Outdoor facilitiesThe great tree, and the lawn that has learned its shadow.
• Outdoor facilitiesA cottage, and the lawn laid out before it.
• GardensColour, kept close to a white fence.
• GardensAn orchid leans out along the cottage, as if the window had learned to bloom.
• GardensAlong the cottage, white and violet keep to the trellis and the quiet glass.
• GardensWhite orchids rest on the rail, in the shade of the cottage.
• PlantationsYoung trees, learning the grammar of this ground.
• Water sportsA slow crossing. The water does the rest.
• Water sportsStillness, seen from the deck among banana leaves.
• Forest trailsA stone path, narrowing into green quiet.
• Ayurveda facilitiesWarm oil, and the body remembering how to rest.
• Ayurveda facilitiesA thin stream of oil, until the mind grows quiet.
• Ayurveda facilitiesHerbs, bottled and waiting, like letters from the earth.
• Ayurveda facilitiesA conversation, with the medicines set between.
• Ayurveda facilitiesHands at the temples, unhurried.
• Ayurveda facilitiesWarm bundles of herbs, laid along the tired places.
• Cottage interiorsThe door stands open. The corridor keeps its own still weather.
• Lawns and avenuesThe campus, held in one wide, quiet glance.
• Lawns and avenuesLawns, and the white fences that keep them gentle.
• Lawns and avenuesA young palm, newly at home.
• Lawns and avenuesAn avenue of young trees, waiting for evening.
• Lawns and avenuesOur friend on the lawn, keeping a quiet watch over the grass.
• Lawns and avenuesOur friend again, a small golden presence at home on the wide lawn.