Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Botanical Garden

We visited the botanical garden here in Atlanta this afternoon. Rain fell steadily. We found a pair of peregrine falcons sitting in this tree. We were alerted to their presence by their cries. A few seconds after I took this picture the falcons mated. Well that is something you don't see every day.

Camellias were in bloom.

The garden has three works by Chuhuly, that famous glass artist. This is the first one we saw.

This is a red bud tree. It looks purple or lilac.

The garden has an indoor orchid show going on now. We saw tens of thousands of orchids in bloom. We even saw the orchid that makes vanilla beans.

Beautiful orchids.

This is a very nice garden.

 

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