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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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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Pictures from several of L’s study sites. It’s actually really dry down there right now (bad drought conditions), but I have to admit being a bit taken with the look of the dryness. It’s definitely a visual contrast to what I normally see around me.
A few random pictures from the arboretum at L’s school. It was so cool to see all the trees down there. There were lots (I’m looking at you, oak family) that are similar to what we have up here, but surprisingly different as well.
The Roosevelt International Park had some gorgeous gardens in general, but their dahlia beds were definitely the highlight. Here are a few of my favorites, with a few other flowers thrown in for good measure.
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For something a little different today, I found a cruise that goes out to Eagle Island, a state park that was the summer home of Admiral Robert Peary (the first American to reach the North Pole), and his family. The island is on the ocean side of Casco Bay (sadly, I was not able to
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