In non-dog news....
On Labor Day, hubby and I went to our local botanical garden. It's been years since we've been, and back then it was mostly a Japanese stroll garden and a hosta shade garden and a lot of dreams of growing bigger, which it definitely has. Free to the public except for a small fee for the Japanese garden, it's very lovely, even late in the summer when a lot of plants and flowers are starting to look a little tatty. There's also a wee butterfly house! Nothing exotic, just local butterflies in a quonset-hut style netting-covered greenhouse that's only about 30 feet long. But still some beautiful flowers and flutterers:
https://instagram.com/p/BnRqysKn5B5
https://instagram.com/p/BnRqmQtngR6
https://instagram.com/p/BnRYrLLHNVn
This is a huge stained-glass window in the botanical garden's resource center/gift shop building:
https://instagram.com/p/BnRq9XnnL1i
It was very warm and muggy, but there was a stiff wind blowing, so not too terribly miserable. We were sweating by the end, though. We also paid to walk through the Japanese stroll garden, which is a separate entity from the botanical garden. I have photos on my "big camera," but I haven't had a chance to look at them yet. If there's any worth sharing, I'll post them.
https://instagram.com/p/BnRqysKn5B5
https://instagram.com/p/BnRqmQtngR6
https://instagram.com/p/BnRYrLLHNVn
This is a huge stained-glass window in the botanical garden's resource center/gift shop building:
https://instagram.com/p/BnRq9XnnL1i
It was very warm and muggy, but there was a stiff wind blowing, so not too terribly miserable. We were sweating by the end, though. We also paid to walk through the Japanese stroll garden, which is a separate entity from the botanical garden. I have photos on my "big camera," but I haven't had a chance to look at them yet. If there's any worth sharing, I'll post them.