This morning I got to experience being in one of my true happiest places!! A garden!! A very large and ornate one at that. It made me ponder the difference between appreciating "wild" beauty and appreciating cultivated beauty (forest vs. garden.) Naturally, I concluded that both are worthy of our admiration because one is G-d's raw work, and the other is G-d's children tending G-d's beautiful planet and learning to work with nature to enhance the arrangement of its many beautiful elements.
A huge thank you to my dear friend Adi Feen for the power-walking tour through the garden. She is a docent there and very knowledgeable! It was the perfect last morning activity to power me up for the next part of the "Down By The Bay" journey.
I also need to give an additional shout-out to Robert for taking David almost every morning on the long carpool drop-offs for Adira and Nesya. It allowed me time to go on outings like this which helped me reduce stress in this crazy time! He gave me hours a day almost every single day and it was much appreciated!!!
@ Atlanta Botanical Garden
The bog- billowy, fluffy grasses and pitcher plants, one of several carnivorous plants native to the SE USA! Venus Flytraps also present but not pictured.
Canopy walk- I don't think I'd ever been so high up among trees!
Earth Goddess- covered with flowers in warmer seasons!!
Near the edible garden
dwarf POMEGRANATE!
pink AERIAL ROOTS from the cissus tree in the rainforest!! I was staggeringly amazed walking around this tree! Could not get enough of it.
I couldn't look long enough at these awesome trees around it too.
the chives in this garden were soooo yummy. seriously.
Lotus hand, earth goddess!
Looks like a cool place to see unique plants! Not everyone is as lucky as me to have their brother give them a Venus Flytrap for their birthday.
ReplyDeleteSo funny Marie, I gave our nephew binyamin one of those for his bar mitzvah because I couldn't think of anything else witty :)
DeleteYes I am obsessed with botanicals of all kinds so those places are my happy place.