Friday, January 7, 2011

Desert Botanical Garden

I loved my biology class this semester. I have never really been a science person, and I usually find most of that stuff so confusing and/or boring. But I had a great teacher and it ended up being one my my favorite classes! Well throughout the semester for our labs we had to go on two field trips and they were fun! The first one was the Gilbert Riparian which is sort of a marsh in the middle of the desert. I'm sure it's beautiful in the spring but... not so much in September. The second one was the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. I loved it!!! It was gorgeous. The dessert really can be pretty with just a little care and attention.

This was in the herb garden, it smelled so good in there

This is my favorite, I love how the spines look with the sun behind them. These little cacti look like a miniature city.

I made Jake come with me but it was fun :) there was a chocolate festival going on at the same time so we got to taste some yummy chocolate!

1 comment:

Sarah said...

Who knew the desert could be beautiful?! I'm partial to snow covered mountains and green plants as I'm sure you are too growing up in Utah and whatnot.