Brian Jungen

Swiss-Canadian and First Nation
Exhibition in the Museum of the American Indian in DC Plastic chairs

Baseball gloves

Basketball shoes

Golf Bags

Basketball shoe

Plastic containers

Museum of the American Indian in DC (1)

Iroquois? The Central Hall is impressive

Four differents kinds of canoes were displayed.

Birch Bark

Behind the museum

Museum of the American Indian in DC (2)

The museum is close to the Capitol. The sand-colored stonework reminds me of the cliffs in the American Southwest.

Native plants in the garden at the front.

Aa Buffalo Kachina

Looks like a Hawaiian outrigger.

Cactus

The cacti from school are doing well in the Florida sun.

Birds

Here is someone who takes great pictures: our neighbor Reinhold.
Great blue heronSnowy egret

Tricolored heron

The difference between a heron and an egret? All egrets are part of the heron family, a subdivison as I may say so. Not all herons are egrets.

Orchid Society Garden (1)

 Phalenopsis

Heliconia

Frauenschuh

Orchid Society Garden (2)

The American Orchid Society ahs a fancy building right next to Morikami. There is a greenhouse and otudoor gardens.

Sugar cane

Water Reclamation Facility (1)

The spray fields are located a bit further away from the plant. A farmer grows Bermuda grass of the finest quality out there. One of the holding basins.

Wildlife likes the basin. This green anole basks in the sun.

Pumps to get the water out to Legacy.

Balloon

A balloon landed in Legacy on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Luckily Carolyn Anderson Katz took photos from her lanai and was nice enough to share them with me.

Morikami (1)

Some of the stonework used in the garden is antique. All of the firebush were cut like bonsai trees.

The romantic garden style is what most people have in mind when they think of a Japanese garden for their home.

Turtles and koi live in the murky water and are obviously used to feeding.

Morikami (2)

The Gulfstream Bonsai collection is exquisite. Cypress

Bougainvillea

Morikami (3)

The Morikami Museum and Gardens are on land donated by George Sukeji Morikami. In 1904, Jo Sakai organized a group of Japanese farmers who founded the Yamato colony in Palm Beach county. Yamato is an ancient name for Japan.

These farmers tried to make a go of farming the land, but had to give up in the 1920's, only George Morikami stayed.

When George ws in his 80s, he donated land to Palm Beach County with the wish that it be used as a park to preserve the memory of the Yamato Colony.

The Morikami, with its unique gardens and collections, is one of Palm Beach County's most treasured cultural attractions.

Of the four gardens we visited, the Morikami is the most beautiful with the best vistas. It is also the one requiring the most maintenance. There is barely a bush that wasn't shaped into just the right configuration to provide the best view.