The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
At 15 acres, the Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, (new state!) are relatively small, which was good, because I was there during a heatwave. I was there early in the morning, but it …
We wound up in Texas in August in a van because Doug had a work event. While he was working, I went to look at flowers at the Lubbock Memorial Arboretum, which is part of …
We had a long-planned trip to visit our friend Krissy while she happened to be in Crestone for a spell (she normally resides on the west coast). We had a great time on our few …
Look, I had almost 400 pictures from a few hours in the Denver Botanic Gardens, so I don’t feel bad I have two posts for the gardens. Everyone should just be grateful there are only …
Gentle Reader, did I go to the Denver Botanic Gardens and take nearly 400 pictures in less than 2 hours? You betcha. Let me see if I can find some regret anywhere…nope. The gardens (in …
Since our excursion to the highest point in Nebraska got us relatively close to the state capitol of Wyoming, we decided to spend a night in another new state in the van, including a visit …
We were settled in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for a couple weeks around Doug’s jury duty service, and took a weekend trip around the Northeast corner of our home state. Let’s be honest, there is …
My hope when we went to McCrory Gardens in Brookings, South Dakota, was that I’d see lots of flowers while Doug saw lots of birds. It worked out well for me (as you’ll see from …
We went to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, Minnesota, hoping to get some birding in, but we didn’t do very well. I went in hoping that we would see some new lifers since is …
We went to the Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to see some birds, naturally, but we found almost no birds. However, to my delight, the adjacent Lyndale Park Rose Garden had many …
