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 (third from the bottom), 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
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I’m just a little behind uploading the rest of the pictures from my Arizona trip… I really enjoyed the Phoenix Zoo. It’s privately run, and was possibly the nicest zoo I’ve ever been to. I’m pretty sure it had the best variety of animals. (I didn’t bother to upload any pictures I took with cages,
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We went to AZ mainly to hang out with friends, but we did find a few hours to sneak off and do some touristy things. The Desert Botanical Garden is part of the same organization as our Botanical Garden here in Maine, and since we’re members here, we were able to get in for free.
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I’m back from a lovely long weekend in the Phoenix area of Arizona, where the BF and I visited with a good friend of BF’s from college, and his family. It was a lovely weekend, mostly because it was sunny and in the 80s the whole time. (In contrast, we had a nasty pre-winter storm