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More pictures of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Here's a view approaching the Climatron.
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And the reflecting pool filled with more vividly colored Chihuly glass sculptures, walla walla onions. They are loosely tethered and gracefully laze about the water.
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The colors are so intense it's hard to choose a favorite.
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Here's one of the two waterfalls inside.
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The conditions mimic a tropical rainforest with 1200 species of plants.
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A Barbary Dove which allowed us to get ridiculously close for a picture.
The garden was such a pleasant surprise, I highly recommend visiting if you are ever in St. Louis.
I'll leave you with a quote from Dale Chihuly that I like, "I can't understand it when people say they don't like a particular color. How on earth can you not like a color?"
Next time, pictures from a quilt exhibition. Thanks for visiting.
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