Phoenix Botanical Garden
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guppiecatDuring my trip to Phoenix, I visited the botanical garden. I had just finished my consult with my client and wanted to walk around a bit before bed. The nice thing about the garden is that it's open quite late and since it was (no kidding) ninety degrees warmer in Phoenix than it was in Minneapolis that day, I was quite able to be out until 8pm taking photos with no concern.
The set is here.
This one will take me a few posts to get through, as there were two important things to talk about other than the basic visit. This post, though, is just about the visit.
It's hard to pick a favorite from the basic set, but I kinda like this one:
This is what cacti look like. I like how their spines make them seem to glow.
It was flowering time. I never really understood how cactuses figured out where to put their flowers. On many of them, it seems quite random.
There were lots of desert bunnies. This one told me he tastes like chicken.
To grow things in the botanical garden, they must water. This attracts birds. This is more pleasant than visiting Las Vegas where birds are also attracted by... sewage treatment plants.
See? Who on earth would put a flowery thing there? It's like there's a random flower generator at play.
Pointy.
Cousin It was visiting too.
You can teach quail to shake, but the end results are seldom worth the effort.
After the birds make themselves look ridiculous, they produce a surprisingly loud noise, seemingly trying to attract attention to their utter ridiculousness.
Some cactuses are evil. This one is sharp and pointy, but it's also sticky, so if you get stuck you get stuck.
At night, they light up the garden, so if you have a tripod, you can get neat photos.
This is what happens if you move the camera while taking the photo. What's interesting is that the streams of lights aren't uniform. This indicates that either the sensor on the d800 is pulsed or the light was flickering faster than the eye could see, but the camera saw it. Not a great photo, but it indicates interesting things.
The set is here.
This one will take me a few posts to get through, as there were two important things to talk about other than the basic visit. This post, though, is just about the visit.
It's hard to pick a favorite from the basic set, but I kinda like this one:
This is what cacti look like. I like how their spines make them seem to glow.
It was flowering time. I never really understood how cactuses figured out where to put their flowers. On many of them, it seems quite random.
There were lots of desert bunnies. This one told me he tastes like chicken.
To grow things in the botanical garden, they must water. This attracts birds. This is more pleasant than visiting Las Vegas where birds are also attracted by... sewage treatment plants.
See? Who on earth would put a flowery thing there? It's like there's a random flower generator at play.
Pointy.
Cousin It was visiting too.
You can teach quail to shake, but the end results are seldom worth the effort.
After the birds make themselves look ridiculous, they produce a surprisingly loud noise, seemingly trying to attract attention to their utter ridiculousness.
Some cactuses are evil. This one is sharp and pointy, but it's also sticky, so if you get stuck you get stuck.
At night, they light up the garden, so if you have a tripod, you can get neat photos.
This is what happens if you move the camera while taking the photo. What's interesting is that the streams of lights aren't uniform. This indicates that either the sensor on the d800 is pulsed or the light was flickering faster than the eye could see, but the camera saw it. Not a great photo, but it indicates interesting things.
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Date: 2013-04-03 02:09 am (UTC):-)
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Date: 2013-04-03 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-03 10:22 pm (UTC)We also get yellow headed blackbirds, which are a lot like red winged blackbirds but where a flock of thousands of red wings sound busy and cheerful, a flock of similar size of the yellows sound like lots and lots and lots of squealing gears in the machine that runs the random bird noise generators for the starling-like things referenced above.
We get those flocks in the cottonwood over our house. They are also very loud. (But you know, it's really neat to have that kind of noise and not the kind that comes from highways.)
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Date: 2013-04-04 12:28 am (UTC)