VISIT TO SAN DIEGO, VOL II
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Olga came to our Bed & Breakfast bright and early AM on our first morning there and cooked us a wonderful breakfast.
This B&B has a secluded outdoor common area which is perfect for relaxing breakfasts.
Looking at some of the plants on our way to the Balboa Park Botanical Garden.
And we aren't even IN the Botanical Garden yet!
The Botanical Garden is immediately behind Olga as she takes this shot. Wonderful reflecting pool leads up to it.
You have to experience the "motion" around this place to really get some idea what it's like. On this video, notice the artists (painters). There were actually several of them there, most of which are outside the field of view of this video.
I believe that this is a type of bromeliad (the same family of plants to which pineapples belong). This particular plant forms a cup, in which are these colorful flowers and a water home for some interesting worms.
Here you see the flowers and worms a bit more closely.
You will see the worms even better in this short video. Keep in mind that the entire cup is probably about the diameter of a silver dollar.
Music by Kevin MacLeod of incompetech.com
Similar bromeliad. These flowers reminded me of hungry baby birds.
There are more than 2,100 permanent plants to drool over.
A wedding in the Balboa Park Rose Gardens.
Just north of the Rose Gardens is the Cactus Garden.
Try running through a thicket of THIS cactus!
If a couple decided to get married here, they could always have someone sing the song "I BEG YOUR PARDON. I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN."
And really, the flowers and plants here are just as beautiful, and more varied, than are any roses (and at least as thorny, too)!
Now the tree that Bev and Olga are looking at is totally weird. That's all a big trunk at the bottom, with all the branches sticking out, and.......
Looking west, over Balboa Park (The three of us are looking east, back toward the Rose Garden).
Zen and koi.
We are now in the Japanese Friendship Gardens. The koi and Zen pool from the previous frames are also a part of it. They do a great job here of having knowledgeable volunteers who enjoy telling you the interesting stuff they know.
This fellow was telling us about bonsai.......
