Fieldtrip!

~Hightlight of the Day: sending a picture of a weeping angle to my sister~

So what do a whole bunch of plant geeks do for fun? We go to the Morris Arboretum.

the Fernery

This is easily the biggest Katsura tree

 I've ever seen. Did you know at one point
 durring the year they smell like cotton candy?
So cool.

 They had a lot of cool places, like a giant bird's nest. While walking out I passed a mother and her little boy. The boy was saying excitedly, "those are big eggs. Those are dinosaur eggs!" It made me smile :)

Aaaaaand Mercury. The god, not the stuff.

After we had a chance to mosey around a bit we were off to the Laurel Hill Cemetary. I wasn't all too excited about it at first, but then we arrived :) It was a truly amazing cemetary - one of the oldest (if not the oldest) of it's kind. As a more knowledgable intern told me, it was the first to be designed as a place to go and spend time.

weeping angel!

There's just so much stone, everywere, and a lot them are obelisks or other tall structures. Altogether it creates this forest of stone amongst all the greenery, which is quite lovely.

There are also several streets/paved paths just lined with small houses (I'm sure there's a more technical term. . . ) so much so that it looks almost like a neighborhood. Of dead people, of course.

So that's what we do for fun! It was indeed a blast. And just for the record, I wore my chacos all day long, and I can just make out the beginings of a chaco tanline :)