A.k.a. the afternoon we took a rental Kia Sephia down 22 miles of dirt road in the Arizona mountains. So, after the Desert Botanical Gardens the morning of my birthday, we took a look at the AAA material the BF had picked up before we left Maine, and decided it would be fun to take […]
The Apache Trail (Route 88 out of Apache Junction), AZ Read More »
The morning of my birthday (the 22nd), we headed over to the Desert Botanical Garden, which we’re able to access for free, because we’re members of our local botanical garden. (Definite perk of that membership.) It’s the late part of their wildflower season in April, though it apparently wasn’t a great wildflower year, because they
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I’m back from a lovely week in sunny Arizona. We rented a car this time, and did some fun day trips from Phoenix. I’ve got a ton of pictures to format, and four books to review. It’s been a good week, and while I miss the sun, I’m glad to be back in the land
The gardens at the Morikami Japanese Garden and Museum were definitely the highlight of my trip to Florida. It’s an absolutely gorgeously done garden, with a progression of well labelled styles. We didn’t explore the main museum building (other than their awesome gift shop), but the Yamato-san (the original museum building) has a great exhibit
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I went down to Florida to stay with my father and C, and my sister flew in from LA to join us. On one of our full days, we traveled down to Miami. My step-sister A, who lives in the area full time, took us on a driving tour through Miami proper (we were there
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I’m back from a lovely extra long weekend in south Florida. Four nights, three full days. Just long enough to soak in some green, and visit a couple of cool places. Pictures are forth-coming, as well as a few books I read during travel time.
Pattern: Bearded Toque by v. vineYarn: Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Chestnut Heather and BlackNeedles: Size 9 I’ve finished my brother’s Bearded Toque, complete with Fu Manchu moustache (which is only minimally affixed at the moment, in case he hates it). Second time around was definitely better for the pattern. I had a better idea of
We’re into full on winter wonderland mode here, which means I’m pretty much holed up in the house, not really going anywhere interesting, hence the lack of anything other than reading and knitting posts. Here is the best I can manage to remedy that. We’ve acquired a new neighbor. One of the local red tailed
It was so lovely to see all the hot weather flowers. I’ve seen those around enough in some of my other trips to be a little familiar with them, but this trip was a little different because of the cactus. I’ve never been in a climate where there are so many different kinds of cactus
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A variety of Arizona wildflowers, mostly from the Desert Botanical Garden. My personal favorite was the chocolate flower, which smells exactly like chocolate, and you can smell from yards away. If it weren’t wildly out of its growing zone, I’d be filling my garden with it. 2023 Note: It’s not wildly out of my gardening
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