Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Wordless Wednesday








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18 comments:

Anonymous said...

You found some beauties! I would love to take a walk on that path. Is it a place you go often?

Lynne at Hasty Brook said...

Sandy- this park is the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary about five miles from my home. It was founded by the Minneaplos Park Board in 1907 and represents plantings of Minnesota's major habitats- deciuous forest, upland prairie and wetland. Eloise Butler, a schoolteacher, feared the wildness of Minnesota would fall to development and worked tirelessly to save a part of it. She tended the Wildflower Garden her whole life. Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden is the oldest wildflower garden in the United States. We celebrated its 100th birthday this year. I love this park.

RuthieJ said...

Oh Lynne, I want to go to this place so badly. I cut an article out of a magazine last winter and showed it to my brother in St. Paul, asking if he knows where this place is and could he take me there if I come up to visit him. Your pictures are so beautiful. I'd better get my plans finalized!

Lynne at Hasty Brook said...

Ruthie- Let me know when you're coming! I'd love to meet you there!

Deb said...

I spent twenty odd years of my life growing up near there, and never once did I visit the place! The things I missed!

NatureWoman said...

Ohhh, very nice Lynne! Looks like a nice place to visit! (I miss your words!)

Anonymous said...

I have no response to your wordless post.

Mary said...

"Let Nature be Your Teacher." More words are not necessary, Lynne. Perfect. But I, too, like your words :o)

LauraHinNJ said...

Teach me! Teach me!

;-)

The triliums are beautiful! Those are bluebells, right?

What's the yellow flower?

nina at Nature Remains. said...

Celandine poppies? You're looking so lush and green--(like we were a month ago!)
It looks so cool and inviting--is it? We're 6.4 inches below normal rainfall and everything is getting crispy and crunchy.
Your area looks so friendly.

Anonymous said...

Nature is my teacher for sure! Thanks for sharing!

Susan Gets Native said...

Pretty place!
How much rain are you guys getting up there?

HellZiggy said...

I love the Eloise Butler gardens. I saw my first pileateds there last fall! :)

~other Sharon

Jayne said...

Balm for my soul this morning. Thanks for sharing Lynne.

Unknown said...

Nice! Very, very nice!

Anonymous said...

It looks simply beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing, I'm going to have to get over there sometime soon!

Larry said...

Looks like a nice peaceful place for a walk.-This is one case where I wouldn't mind if the teacher kept me after class.

Anonymous said...

Words couldn't have said it better. Beautiful.