Happy Valentine’s Day 2025
Love is everywhere! In celebration of St. Valentine’s Day, here is a selection of some of the love themes we’ve experienced in our travels over the last couple of years. The cover photo is Norwegian …
Category: Flowers
Dashing Around Connecticut
Here are a few items of interest from some adventures around the state as I zipped in and out over two different visits (clearly one trip last summer and a second trip this winter!). Bartlett …
Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
November is definitely not the right time of year to visit botanical gardens in Ohio, but since the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens had a large Dale Chihuly collection, I went anyway. They have …
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
I always suffer moral pangs about zoos. I feel terrible for the animals who don’t have proper room to run and play. Zoos often come up as a “must do” in an area where we …
Krohn Conservatory and Eden Park
Doug was traveling, so of course –– of course –– when I found myself alone I went to see some flowers. Krohn Conservatory is located in Eden Park in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Art Deco style …
Racing Through Indianapolis
Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library Kurt Vonnegut is often referred to as “Indiana’s Second Gentleman” (author Booth Tarkington is Indiana’s First Gentleman), and his works often probed the surreal side of American and personal history. …
Architecture / Birds / Flowers / Nature
Lilly House and Gardens at Newfields
Lilly House, also known as Oldfields, belonged to Josiah K. Lilly Jr, an Indianapolis businessman, collector, and philanthropist (who also happened to be the grandson of the founder of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly). The …
Architecture / Art / Authors / Flowers
A Few Stops in Toledo (The City in Ohio)
Racing south out of Detroit, we spent less than 24 hours in Toledo, managing to pack in visits to a few sites before we continued southward. Toledo Botanical Garden We had hoped to find some …
From Detroit North Up the Michigan Mitten
Part of the reason we didn’t get much done in Detroit proper is because we kept getting distracted and going elsewhere! Here are some of our adventures outside the Detroit metro area. Frankenmuth Frankenmuth is …
Georgeson Botanical Garden
The Georgeson Botanical Garden (GBG) in Fairbanks was technically “closed for the season”, but visitors could still stroll the grounds. You just had to do it with the expectation that the grounds were being prepared …