Sunday, June 24, 2012

Bellevue Botanical Gardens

My Oregon-based brother and his wife came up our way for the weekend and we explored Bellevue Botanical Gardens together.  I’ve been wanting to go since reading that they had just expanded the gardens by several acres and added a suspension bridge over an emerald green gully.

We found a statue of a frog and called this “The Tadpole That Lived”. 

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This boy cheerfully soaked himself at this fountain before we had been there ten minutes.

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I can’t imagine the man hours it takes for all these acres to look so effortless.

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Okay, Pipes, you are cute, but you’re off trail.  Again.

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The Gardens are free.  Unless one develops a severe case of flower-lust and must go out and buy approximately 60 acres worth of flora for one’s own area.  Right now.

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and this one

 

 

 

 

 

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and this one….okay, so I just went out and bought this last one. 

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