Friday, August 7, 2009

botanical gardens

we found this beautiful botanical garden by word of mouth from our neighbor and ward member.
This is a persons home, they live on about 4 acres and have developed the property into this amazing retreat for others to come to!
Above are some gorgeous lillies
A bigger view of the gardens
The most fragrant lily! Yum!
Fountain in the middle of the center garden

I loved these little flowers!! So beautiful and dainty!
Nate, Cailtyn and Nick sittling on a wrought iron swing before we went into the pine trees
Glass mushrooms in the pine tree pathways
oops, Kris sideways, but on one of the cool swings in the woods
Apparently Nate forgot how to stand straight
another place in the woods to just sit and relax.
a great hammock in the woods.

Kris and Cheryl
one of the many fountains on the property

Caitlyn by one of the bubbling fountains in the woods
spectacular beginning of the sunset
more sunset

more of the lanterns in the woods.
Caitlyn posing on the bench under the pergola
Nick posing on the same bench!!
All in all, this is one of the most relaxing places we have been here. I cant wait until next week to go again! :)

2 comments:

Carolanne said...

Wow. I'm speechless, those pictures are so stunning.

Bryan said...

Holy crap! There's really some beautiful country up there! So I guess all the rumors of Maine being a barren winter wasteland aren't true after all! ;)