This should be the first of several posts over the next day or two covering our travels and exploits throughout the end of May and June (they won't necessarily be in chronological order).
Two weeks ago we visited the Hayeorim Botanical Garden in the northwest corner of Yeoju County--about a 45 minute drive from our place. Our little Hyundai groaned and wheezed over the small, steep ridges between the Han River and the garden, but she made it. The garden itself was typical Korean: muzak playing over loudspeakers, parents letting their children run everywhere and trample the subjects of exhibition and life-sized fairy-tale characters in the playground. Oh, and the plants were nice too.
The full photo set:
There was a great water-powered mill (or maybe it would be better characterized as a mortar and pestle). Water comes in from a steeply sloped stream/waterfall off frame to the left. It's diverted into a dug-out log (supported by the Y-frame stick) and falls into a cavity on the left end of the big lever/hammer log. When the log fills with water it tilts down sharply, dispatches of its temporary water load, and comes hammering back down on the other side, where a blunt end makes contact with a stone bowl (and whatever else is in it--there was nothing in this one). I imagine it would take a long time to get anything done with this, but at least it's relatively labor free.
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