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Organic Mechanics Garden, Tenderloin District, San Francisco Y'all know how I love rusty stuff ... were I not an honest & upstanding citizen of this planet who knows that karma will get you somehow, somewhere, I'd have smuggled this out! |
Why I haven't posted anything yet about the Garden Bloggers' Fling in San Francisco ... can we blame it on my heat-addled brain? Far from being the fabulously cool escape envisioned, the Bay Area was suffering from an unseemly heat wave during my time there. I am beginning to feel like something of a jinx when it comes to temperature.
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Three views of the chaotic and colorful Keeyla Meadows garden ... oh, to have the courage to be so bold! |
How about blaming it on sensory overload ... being overwhelmed by so many amazingdelightfulwonderful charmingeclecticeccentric beautifulincrediblefantastic awesomephenomenal inspiring gardens?
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Garden bloggers take in the view from the upper deck of the Matt Gil Sculpture Garden (that's a freeway in the background) |
Or we could blame it on being in the company of so many fellow garden fanatics?
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Looking out towards the bay from The Wave Garden |
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A view from the Dudan Garden |
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Filoli |
I could blame it on the fabulous views ...
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A pond in the Nichols garden |
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Just one lush corner of the back gardens at Anne Nichols' fabulous home |
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Succulent plantings in the Nichols Garden |
Or the staggering diversity of plantings?
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Sunset Magazine Demonstration Gardens |
Oh, hay-ull, let's blame it on all of the above!
Comments
Yes, be bold!
David/:0)
It would have been great to see you again - next year hopefully :)