Trip to Morris Arboretum
I took a trip up to the incredibly beautiful Morris Arboretum on April 27th with Andi. It was the 75th Anniversary of the arboretum as a public garden and they were opening their doors to all comers for free. And as a special treat, they were allowing, for the first time, they were allowing people into the Bloomfield Farm section of the arboretum complete with a tour of the old Grist Mill. It's an incredible place and I'll surely be back there, $10 admission and all. Above is a photo of dawn redwood trees in the arboretum. Yep, that's right – Philadelphia has redwood trees. Crazy.
The arboretum is large, but not so large that you can't cover it all in a day's walk. Paths are well laid out along with ADA-approved accessible routes. Lady and I have become more and more interested in Kingdom Plantae recently and it was great to see all the great things that grow in the region. It as also great to walk through the place with Andi who knows quite a bit about flora. It's places like this that make me want to get a macro lens. Head over to Andi's post which is chock full of macro shots from the trip.
As an added bonus, we met up with Tony and Anne in the Bloomfield are of the arboretum for the Grist Mill tour. Always great to catch up with them and even better in such an incredible setting! I highly recommend the trek out there to visit. Come July the roses will be in full bloom.
And here's a flickr set of photos from the trip.
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May 12th, 2008 @ 10:21 am
I gotta go there…for some odd reason I haven't visited the place.
Really dig the pix…especially the one of the dark red barn.
May 12th, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
Great shot! My wife mentioned that the dawn redwoods aren't exactly the same as the giant California redwoods (although there is one of those at the Arboretum), but the dawn redwood story is far more interesting in that they were thought to be long extinct and only discovered in the 1940s!
May 13th, 2008 @ 6:32 pm
I grew up a few miles down Germantown ave. from Morris and went there pretty often… The difference was I'd go in at night through a secret hole in the massive fence. It's amazing during the day, but at night it's almost otherworldly.
For years after that I had a friend who worked there. We'd occasionally let ourselves in after hours and wander free. Some of my greatest memories are from those nights.
Of course I'm not advocating trespassing. No one else should sneak in, in the middle of the night. It's wrong and illegal.
May 13th, 2008 @ 8:43 pm
That was a fun trip and I can't wait to go back again! There are so many awesome gardens and arboretums in the Philadelphia region and I plan to visit every one of them this year. ha!
And I love macro. :D I've actually been thinking about getting another macro lens, but I will hold off for now. It's just a whole other world waiting to be photographed. I'd say you could use my lens, but you know….it's for a Canon and all. If I ever find a Nikon macro lens laying around somewhere, I'll be sure to collect it for you.
p.s. Thanks for the lens hood, albert! ;)