Here’s the indoor portion of the United States Botanic Garden, located inside a lovely old school glass conservatory, which you can see from the picture above certainly isn’t on the small side. It’s set up with a number of different room, representing a variety of habitats, including desert, Hawaii, the primeval forest, and the center […]
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Our Sunday in DC, we spent another day wandering around the National Mall. The highlight of the day was the United States Botanic Garden, which is a stone’s throw from the Capital Building. (The view from the picture above is taken from the conservatory entrance.) The garden is funded by Congress, so it’s not a
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We spent the second part of Sunday in the National Arboretum. We’d actually spent enough time in the Zoo that we got there fairly late, so we took the tram tour to get a view of what’s there, and walked around the visitor’s center a bit. There’s a ton of stuff of see there, and
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Our Sunday down in DC was taken up at the National Zoo, and the National Arboretum. Above is the hit parade from the Zoo. We definitely caught baby season. You can see the baby anteater and baby gorilla above. We were actually pretty lucky to the see the baby gorilla, as mom was feeling very
The other Saturday garden highlight in DC were the gardens around the Smithsonian Castle. The Haupt Garden is behind the Castle, and actually on top of the Sackler and African History museums, which are built underground. It’s split into three sections, including a Moongate Garden, based on a garden in Beijing, and a Fountain Garden,
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We spent our first full day (Saturday) in DC wandering around the National Mall. The Mall is boxed in by the Capital Building and Washington Monuments on the ends, and the Smithsonian Museums along the long edges. We did visit the Freer, Sackler and African Art Galleries, as well as a quick stop in the
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Here’s a small sampling of the flowers and some of the other plants from my trip to the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. We stuck mostly the to the woodland areas, so many of these are woodland and shade plants.
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We spent a good part of the day at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, which is about an hour north of us in the town Boothbay. I tried to time the trip to correspond to the peak of the rhododendron bloom, but I forgot that they’re a bit cooler on that particular portion of the
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I was in Rochester, NY this past weekend for my cousin’s wedding. There was a lot of visiting with family on the trip, but we did manage to get out and about in Rochester a bit, including a visit to the George Eastman House. Eastman was the founder of the Kodak company, so there are
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