The botanical garden was absolutely beautiful! It was far smaller than the one back home (Kanapaha), but still well worth the cost of admission and then some ($2 for adults, $1 for kids and active duty military, abd $0 for babies, so a total of $4 got us in.) The volunteers there were super nice, and as we were leaving, they were sure to send us off with pamphlets about the archaelogical significance of the site (which is actually extremely cool), coloring sheets of local species for Erin, and an invite to the annual open house festivities which are going on next week. All in all, it was a fun way to spend a bit of a Saturday afternoon.
Anyhow, like many things, this is worthless without pics, so here you go.
Koi pond at the entrance:
Closer shot of the koi:
Erin and Orren by one of the gardens:
Mosaic on the wall. They're everywhere.
All of us in front of the wetland. It's the last remaining one along the banks of the Rio Grande. There used to be tons of them, but they've all been destroyed, except this one. Audobon Society looks for birds out there a lot, and has found like five species that are considered rare, in addition to dozens which are not. It's pretty cool.
I liked these little yellow flowers. They were like puffballs, and the tree was almost willow-like, but also looked kind of Asian. This reminded me of things you see in Japanese art sometimes, only the flowers aren't usually yellow there.
Erin and yellow flowers:
Cactus and succulent garden:
House maze:
Kids' archaeological dig. There are like ten sandboxes like that one, some with white sand, others with red.
Childrens' garden:
A bonus pic of Orren when he took a little break from eating his blankie:
Me and Erin with brightly colored flowers:
Erin in the formal garden:
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