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Colors of A Different Season…

The intent of this is simply to brighten the spirits of some of you whose world is now gray and white and bleak and cold and wet and dark…

Photograph of Butchart’s Garden, Vancouver Island, CA, used with permission of Ray Maxie. This place has some of the most phenomenal displays of natural color your eyes have ever encountered…

13 Comments so far

  1. Janie March 18th, 2007 10:05 pm

    Went there two years ago and was absolutely blown away by the beauty of it all.

  2. Joy March 18th, 2007 10:20 pm

    You did it…you did it….you brightened my spirits..and my space. Beautiful Winston…thanks.

    Another cool banner….

  3. Stu Savory March 19th, 2007 12:23 am

    Taken with an Infra-Red film? Or does it look like that to human eyes too?

  4. Elsie March 19th, 2007 5:25 am

    The world is white and bleak and cold and wet just outside my window. Thanks for taking off the chill.

  5. Liz March 19th, 2007 9:21 am

    Beautiful! Are they azaleas/rhododendrons? We have a park near us that flowers like that - only in about May.

  6. andy March 19th, 2007 11:13 am

    I just clicked through to their website to view the gallery there - looks like a wonderful place. Sure does does transport me to a brighter place than the view from the office window!

  7. Norm Jenson March 19th, 2007 12:45 pm

    It worked for me.

  8. gerry rosser March 19th, 2007 2:12 pm

    I’ve been to Butchart Gardens. Twice, actually. Once with a lady friend, and once with my Mom. Lovely.

    When I travel, I seek such places, Fairchild Tropical Gardens in South Miami, Leuw Gardens in Orlando, Madison Square Garden in New York. I love that botanical stuff.

  9. Lisa Dunn March 19th, 2007 5:25 pm

    Ahhh. Thanks. Things will be gray for us Minnesotans for a while.

  10. Em March 19th, 2007 7:49 pm

    Wow…that is awesome! All I see out my window is white…with bare brown trunks sticking out of the snow.

  11. Kay Dennison March 20th, 2007 12:34 am

    Absolutely marvelous!!!!!!!!! My son’s godfather and his family live in Vancouver. Think I should go house-guesting? ;-)

  12. Fiona March 28th, 2007 8:08 am

    What a beautiful garden, Winston. I definitely envy the people who get to walk it’s lovely lovely grounds….

  13. Me April 30th, 2007 3:09 pm

    Beautiful and colorful landscaping, but Vancouver isn’t in the U.S. state of California, it’s in the Canadian province of British Columbia (and was at one time it’s own territory)