We went to the Rose Garden yesterday inside Washington Park. It was a gorgeous day, but hardly any roses were blooming. I took some pictures anyway, which you can see on my Flickr page. There were a lot of other people walking around the gardens, picnicking, and lounging in little corners of the park.One of the weirdest things about the Rose Garden to me is the way we entered. I knew we could get there if we walked west on Burnside long enough, and as we were trekking uphill past a Chico's store and a bank, I spotted a stone wall with a tiny sign marked "Rose Garden". There was a narrow stone stairway that lead up the steep ivy-covered hillside, so we went up.
It was almost a completely vertical climb up staircase after staircase, occasionally turning to follow the slope. Then we were in the woods. Completely in the woods. You'd never know that we'd just been shopping 10 minutes earlier on one of the trendiest streets in a major metropolitan area. I tell ya, this city is like no other I've ever been to!After we'd had our fill of nature, we headed back down to 23rd Ave and found the Lompoc bar. We were just in time to see the 8th inning of the Red Sox/Orioles game! We had some pub food and some awesome beer and enjoyed the game.
Last night was the Starlight Parade, which we were intending to avoid, but we caught some glimpses of it as we were stuck in traffic on the busride home. I don't think we missed much, but the rest of the city didn't seem to think it could pass it up. They sure do love their parades here!
3 comments:
Beautiful pictures, Amanda! You really are a great photographer. By the way, your 'rose tree' is a camellia and your 'weird flower' seems to be a hydrangea of some sort -- probably a big leaf hydrangea. Looks like you live in a gorgeous, people-friendly place! Linda
Thank you! I figured out the camellia right after we moved here, so I guess I should change the flickr captions. That one still sort of boggles my mind though--it's really a rose tree!
Which one is the hydrangea? The white flowers that are blooming in a ring? They're so tiny, and they were on a really big bush. I don't know anything about different plant species though. I only know the "normal" hydrangeas with big balls of blossoms. We have one of those ring next to our door!
Yes, that's the big leaf hydrangea -- white blossoms in a ring around little tiny flowers. There are some other really cool varieties of hydrangea -- like the oak leaf that has flowers in a cone shape. You can see them here:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=hydrangea&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search&offset=0
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