Sunday, March 8, 2009

Tucson Botanical Gardens

Today we went to the Tucson Botanical Gardens, and walked around in the warm sunshine looking at the pretty gardens, both the one designed by the original owners of the property who ran a landscape nursery, and who donated it to the city in 1968; and then at the Xeriscape type desert garden full of cactus and other succulent plants, much more appropriate to this climate. It was fascinating.

There is also a butterfly garden to attract native butterflies with the pretty desert flowers, and an enclosure where they raise buterflies from other parts of the world.

We had lunch there, afterwards explored a new bead shop, then came home, and had dinner here.

The temps have gone down to seasonal norms, in the low to mid 70s, and once again chilly at night. Jeans in the morning, and shorts by midday. Jeans again in the evenings.

Interesting climate indeed.

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