We saw this garden employee, raking the sand in the Japanese garden. His action reminded me of a story I heard last summer up at the cabin. Judd told the story of when he was young, he and his brother were sometimes tasked with raking the beach sand. They always viewed this task as a punitive one, considering that the beach in question is a half mile long and from year-to-year can be quite wide, but they were young boys then and probably needed an activity to keep them from trouble. Their work was a far cry from the decorative raking, or karesansui, practiced at the garden. Karesansui means dry mountain water, which speaks to the major components of this Japanese form of gardening.