I actually visited
Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum just before Christmas of 2012...literally just before. I think I arrived at 4pm on December 24!
It is an amazing place, focused on education of the natural world. I loved exploring the arboretum (it was gloriously warm on a cold day) and then wandering the grounds a bit just before it got dark.
I need to make time and go back - there is so much to see and do there!
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| Looking down the length of the arboretum...with a tree made of poinsettias at the end! |
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| This tree (and the pic below) is cocoa! |
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| Beautiful koi fish in and amongst the water lilies. |
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| You are here...or rather I was :) |
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| That little dot creating the ripples is a beaver! So cool. |
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| Still the beaver...tried to get a clearer shot. Didn't really work. |
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| Loved the silhouette this weeping willow tree made against the grey sky. |
