I came back from Florida bitten hard by the gardening bug. The transition from zone 10b to 5b is not terribly kind, and I came back to a really bleak landscape. Fortunately, it being Spring now, Mother Nature is at least attempting to please me. The above is my side garden, with bulbs very happily […]
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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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 (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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