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Winter in the Gardens

On By dinajohnstonIn Atlanta6 Comments

More from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens during our trip to Atlanta in December. Those white lawn ornaments light up at night. We didn’t go for the holiday night lights since we had dinner plans with friends and it was going to be 30 degrees when the sun went down. It was still fun to see the Christmas decorations during the day.

Even in winter there was a lot of color in the gardens although the orchids were inside the heated orchid house.

Roots hanging from the ceiling were interesting to walk under.

It was a chilly morning but nice to be out.

Waterfalls were everywhere including the one next to the earth goddess topiary. In June her hair was beautiful with lots of colors blooming on it but now it was just dead leaves (but still cool).

Beautiful tall trees throughout the gardens. This was our walk before lunch and we had a crazy packed afternoon so more to come on our trip.

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Our first day in Colorado

On By dinajohnstonIn Vacation2 Comments

All above were taken from our balcony at our hotel in Colorado Springs. As I was taking a picture of the mountain with the fog rolling in a magpie flew on to the balcony above us. I leaned over to get a blurry shot of him with a big bug. I then realized the trees near us also had magpies in them. This was my first timing seeing these. They are in the crow family but are much prettier than our fish crows back home.

I took a quick walk around the property before we headed out for the day and saw all of the above.

I had read that there was lots of wildlife on the hotel property but when I got to the lake there were the same ole birds I see at home. I thought “Really, I flew halfway across the country to see gulls, mallards and cormorants?” I get those in my backyard at home. But I did see a few different things over the week.

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