Showing posts with label Botanic Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Botanic Garden. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Matthaei Botanical Gardens -Ann Arbor, MI

We wanted to drive over for Stephanie and Wilson’s open house and knowing that the wild man has about a 3 hour limit in the car we decided to get a hotel and and make a mini vacation out of it hitting the IKEA in Canton and the Ann Arbor botanic gardens.

Bright eyed and bushy tailed at the hotel in the morning ready to run.

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The entrance to the children’s garden.

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Headed through a bit of a maze. We are very spoiled I learned, by our amazing children’s garden at Fred Meijer in Grand Rapids. The children's’ garden here was okay but honestly a bit of a let down from what we are used to.

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There are 2 sets of pictures integrated into this post. Clint was awarded money for his classroom from a prize that a student of his  won and the prize went to the ‘most influential teacher’ of the student. How cool is that??? Clint used some of the prize money to buy a digital camera for his class room and he wanted to try it out to get a feel for it so he brought it on this trip.

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This is me taking pictures of Caelun…

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…and then Clint taking pictures of me taking pictures of Caelun.

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It was a nice day and a nice garden. It was a lovely way to spend a summer afternoon.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Chicago Botanic Gardens part 2 of Summer Vacation Part VII

After leaving the paths we walked through the sculptured hedges and came inside to the conservatory.

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The conservatory holds tropicals and and arid garden.

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We left the conservatory and headed back outside to the pond.

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More water, yes Caelun likes botanic gardens

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We are starting to work our way back to the front gate.

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Clint heading for the van. Off to get dinner and then trek home.

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