These are some photos I took today in the Women's Garden! The flowers and plants are spectacular this time of year! It had just rained!

Adjacent to the Historic Nauvoo Visitors’ Center is the Monument to Women Memorial Garden. The memorial consists of a heroic central sculpture of a woman, enhanced by twelve life-sized figures expressing the widely varied nature of women’s vital roles in society. The display may well be the largest commissioned display of sculpture in the world dedicated to women.

 

The circular flow of the pathways is symbolic of the Latter-

day Saint view of the encompassing, never-ending reality of life on earth and in the hereafter. Each statue is given a title and an inscription.

Sponsor of the two-acre memorial is the women’s Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. One of the oldest and most active women’s organizations in the world, the Relief Society was formed on March 17, 1842, in Nauvoo. Starting with eighteen women, the society has now expanded around the world.