<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f58fe958-3c25-4ac0-ad91-c080dc896de5/EF23E7CD-D3F0-4A1C-BA55-4D62DD9E9194/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.delphosherald.com/2008/06/29/downtown-decorated-with-a-touch-of-france/" href="http://www.delphosherald.com/2008/06/29/downtown-decorated-with-a-touch-of-france/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.delphosherald.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.delphosherald.com/2008/06/29/downtown-decorated-with-a-touch-of-france/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.delphosherald.com/img/1FDCA754-5D7C-4BC0-95E3-E5CE217AAF3B" alt="Jill Graves has created a Brick Garden in downtown Delphos for the public to sit, eat ice cream, read or otherwise find a moment of quiet. Her inspiration has roots in a vacation to France she once took with her husband." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.delphosherald.com/2008/06/29/downtown-decorated-with-a-touch-of-france/">When local resident Jill Graves and her husband, Bill, who owns Visual Image Photo, vacationed in France a few years ago, little did she know the trip would come home with her in her thumbs.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.delphosherald.com/2008/06/29/downtown-decorated-with-a-touch-of-france/">The trip inspired the gardener to enhance a recent portion of the Downtown Development Project, which laid red bricks in the alley adjacent to her husband’s business on Main Street. Graves has created the Brick Garden by lining the alley with various potted flowers, trees and more.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.delphosherald.com/2008/06/29/downtown-decorated-with-a-touch-of-france/">“This is my stress relief. I like to garden and it’s kind of a passion. I bought and planted some of them and rescued some and brought them back to life,” she said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.delphosherald.com/2008/06/29/downtown-decorated-with-a-touch-of-france/">The garden also includes some sentimental family pieces.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.delphosherald.com/2008/06/29/downtown-decorated-with-a-touch-of-france/">“The wheel belonged to my grandfather and the barn doors came from my cousin’s barn,” she said. “We visited Southern France a few years ago and I wanted it to look like a Paris walkway.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.delphosherald.com/2008/06/29/downtown-decorated-with-a-touch-of-france/">The garden is the sort of thing Downtown Manager Jay Smith had hoped for.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EF23E7CD-D3F0-4A1C-BA55-4D62DD9E9194/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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