One of my favorite places to walk with my camera is Holden Arboretum. The picture above was taken in the Butterfly Garden last November, after they had bedded everything down for the coming winter. Today I returned to the Arboretum for a short walk...probably no more than a mile, but it felt like I imagine …
It’s beginning to look like spring…
http://skip220.smugmug.com/2013today/Places/HoldenSpring-wildflowers/i-JTMM8Ck/0/L/2014_04_23_Holden_092-L.jpg However, it doesn't FEEL much like spring! Well, except for the raindrops that were falling on my head during my walk in the park this morning. I am reminded of a spring some years back when cold and wet suddenly, actually overnight, became sunny and 90 degrees, and we went from complaining about the …
On Holden Pond
I visited Holden Arboretum this morning. To the dismay of the Canada geese flying overhead, there was no water for them to land in. They were complaining with loud honks of consternation as they searched for some open water. Some eventually tried ice skating (goose style), but they obviously weren't happy about it. The next …
Hike in the Arboretum
This is a beautiful, almost summer, day. I don't think I could have custom-ordered a nicer one or a better day for a walk in the Holden Arboretum. My friend and I packed bag lunches and met in the visitors' center, lunched, caught up on news, and then set off on a two and one-half …
The world outside my window…
...is bursting into bloom. Magnolia trees, forsythia bushes, daffodils, and more are brightening up what has been a pretty dull landscape for most of the winter. We usually have a fair amount of snow here in northeast Ohio, Lake Erie freezes over for part of the winter, and our local river, the Chagrin, is almost always covered with ice thick enough to walk on during January and February. None of that happened this winter. Without snow on the ground, I didn't have a good background for the pictures I took in the park. But now winter seems to be over, although spring snowfall isn't unheard of. A few years back we woke up on Easter morning to several inches of very unwelcome white stuff! However, we have arrived at the official first day of spring in the midst of an extended warm spell with temperatures near or above 70 degrees. My thermometer currently reads 75 sunny degrees to the delight of just about everyone. Here is what it looked like in the Arboretum today when I stopped to wander around after my visit to the dentist.
If these spring scenes have whetted your appetite for more, I posted a slide show here. I hope you enjoyed your short visit to the Arboretum today. see you soon.
~Carolyn aka Skip
Dog tired!
After a long afternoon walk in the Holden Arboretum, we were all dog tired...including Gulliver!
SEEN ALONG THE TRAIL 
