photo walk by Oakhurst Gardens ' environs a former Ball family home A friend and a teacher at Ball State University is working on a web site to acquaint her foreign students with what's interesting and fun about our town. So I volunteered to check out all that is here at Minnetrista and Oakhurst Gardens. So with camera in hand, I sauntered through the gardens and by the homes that had once been the family homes of the Ball family. (The five brothers founded the Ball canning jars 100 years ago here in Muncie, Indiana.) They were wealthy philanthropists. Thus, our hospital and university are named for them. Except for the initial photo, I've used only the photos from my walk that included the brilliantly sunlit sky viewed on Wednesday. Head over to Himmelsk #150 , the last one for awhile, Petunia is taking a well-earned break. These columns which are at the entrance of the Minnetrista Cultural Center , once were part of the front entrance of a Ball home th...