Birds’ View of Madison

177. Looking Down

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click Flying into Madison provides a great view of the city. The State Capitol is a bit right of center. The Capitol Building and Madison’e downtown is on an isthmus, only a couple of miles wide, and sandwiched between Lake Mendota (upper) and Lake Monona (lower). Living in the city, everything is quite near one lake or another, but I’m always surprised when I fly over Madison and see how much of the area is water vs. land.

Reflections

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see The pools were calm on the late May afternoon when I walked through Olbrich Botanical Garden’s  outside gardens. The Thai Pavilion’s reflection had an amazing amount of detail.

source url The gardens are in the city of Madison and are one of my favorite places to visit, especially in the warmer months when there is always a variety of plants in bloom.

Thai Pavilion

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watch The day before we flew to New York City, I showed my sister-in-law a few of the sights in Madison. Olbrich Gardens is always on my tour guide list–rain or shine, anytime of the year. We had sunshine so we toured the 8 outside gardens, all themed. (If it is rainy or cold, the inside conservatory is filled with plants from the tropics, growing amidst walkways, bridges, waterways, and  koi, birds, butterflies.)

https://www.52editions.com/promotions/ One of our favorites is the Thai Pavilion and Gardens. The workers had just finished filling the reflection pools as we arrived. There were also wheelbarrows of plantings to be put in, but we didn’t wait to see the results. It will be even greener next visit.

https://geneticsandfertility.com/patients/ No nails, no screws, and no metal fasteners of any kind were used to craft the Thai pavilion, the centerpiece of the Thai Garden. It was assembled by Thai craftsmen in Thailand, then dis-assembled and shipped to Wisconsin. The Thai artisans then re-assembled the pavilion in the Gardens. (The pieces arrived on the last plane to fly out of O’Hare Airport on 9/11. The Thai took that to be a good omen.)

Lorazepam Buy Online The open-air pavilion, called a “sala” in Thailand, is 40 feet long, 22 feet wide, and 30 feet high. It was a gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the Thai Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association and the government of Thailand through its king, and it bears the Royal seal of the Thai crown.

http://www.ztpackaging.com/laminated-bags/ The Gardens feature plants suitable for a Wisconsin climate that give the feel of those found in a Thai garden. There are hardy, large leafed plants, shrubs and trees, pruned to mimic the look of tropical plants. The plantings are designed to promote a serene setting – de-emphasizing color and emphasizing texture and form.

In the Pink

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https://anthonynewmancamps.com/sports-camps/ I’m in the pink, though after this week-end, I may be in the red! Taking a break from the computer while I take a trip to the East Coast and celebrate my oldest child’s graduation from law school. And that’s not even the best news. She has a great job lined up for after she sits for the bar.

click I’m taking a blog break. Be back on June 5th or 6th, and hope to have a photographs from a part of the country I’ve never photographed – NYC!

Wild Onion

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watch Wandering through the gardens at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens, and I saw this patch of allium, or wild onion. Pretty stuff, this flowering plant called wild onion.