Olbrich Gardens and the Arboretum

 

Today I met Anna Banana II for brunch at Crema Cafe, then we went to Immaculate Heart, which was open this time. The rosary display was gone, but we were able to go into the sanctuary. There is a kind of display on the wall out in the hall about the green scapular, like a setup in a high school for the basketball team that won the state championship in 1996, and I had thought maybe that was the Shrine to the Green Scapular, but we saw the actual shrine in the sanctuary.

Then we went to Olbrich and walked around outside, where we ran into a grad student from my department and her mom. She was wearing her doctoral robe, but she isn't getting her doctorate until the fall. Her mom doesn't really speak English, so we just smiled at each other. Here is a pretty flower that was near the bridge to the Thai pavilion. 

We went into the conservatory and saw lots of blooming orchids, including this interesting one called Gallo Gallo. Isn't that Spanish for Rooster Rooster?

I had to go home and join a meeting for an hour, then Anna Banana II picked me up, and we went to the Arboretum and sniffed just about every blooming crabapple tree and lilac bush. October may be a visually beautiful month with good weather, but May wins because it doesn't just look beautiful, it smells beautiful. This interesting tree didn't have a scent, but I thought the flowers were so pretty. 

It is called a pink mountain silver bell tree, which is a colorful enough name, but I like to think of it this way: Pink Mountain silver bell tree, so I can wonder where Pink Mountain is and long to visit.

We met OK Cap for dinner at the Great Dane, then Anna Banana II went with some other Night Prayer folks to a praise meeting, and I waited on a lovely porch for Travalon to pick me up. I got three decades of the rosary prayed as I waited, so maybe tonight in bed I can finish the other two, because of course it got late. I'll try to post the photos from Travalon's good camera tomorrow.

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