Bridget extends her successful arboretum tour!
“Okay, sweetheart. You can start. Just remind them where the arboretum is and go from there.”
“Don’t worry, RVSue. I know what to do.”
RVSue and I visit Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
That’s Arr-bore-EE-tum for you late-comers. It’s near the town of Superior in Arizona and it has many, many plants.
We’ll start with the Cactus Garden.
In the first photo you see a cactus that is trying to grow fur. Believe me, cactuses are strange! (That’s me in my car.)
“Cacti, honey. When you have more than one cactus, you say cacti.”
“Oh, really. Thanks, RVSue. I’ll keep that in mind.” Jeepers, talk about control issues . . . I happen to know that you can say cactuses in English. But I’m not going to argue with RVSue.
All right. Where were we? Oh, yeah . . . . the barrels.
Aren’t the barrel CACTI neat? They’re bigger than basketballs. A lot bigger!
Remember the totem poles? They get very big, too. This one is taller than RVSue!
The cactus below, on the left side, fooled RVSue. She thought it was a stone carving to decorate the cactus garden. It’s a live cactus! (I didn’t laugh because laughing at mistakes is bad manners.)
“Bridge? Show them the close-up of the cactus with the fruit on top. This would be a good place for that.”
Here she goes again . . . butting into my tour!
Okay. In this next photo we have the cactus with the fruit.
RVSue says “it looks good enough to eat.” (RVSue’s mind often runs to food. Mine does, too, but mostly I keep it to myself.)
More cactus fruit. This is prickly pear. Do you know the name of the big cactus that looks like swords?
Another part of the arboretum is the Butterfly Garden.
RVSue parks my car by the big sun mosaic while she takes butterfly pictures.
I try not to disturb her because this sort of thing makes her very happy. At least she’s not pointing the camera at me!
I sit very still in my car and wait.
RVSue says stuff like “Ooh, these are so pretty!” and “Be still, darn it!” (meaning the butterflies).
I keep waiting. I wait a long time!
I can’t wait any longer!
I wiggle around in my car. Finally RVSue notices. She pushes my car to another spot in the butterfly garden, like that’s going to amuse me or something.
I do my best to be still. You know, this camera thing is becoming an obsession with her.
At last we leave the butterflies and their flowers!
We go through the Eucalyptus Forest.
We come to a long, narrow bridge that goes over a huge wash. Scary!
The bridge takes us to the picnic area.
We take a break and then RVSue pushes me around and around until she realizes she doesn’t know where we are and about the time when I’m beginning to wonder if we’re going to full-time it at Boyce Thompson Arboretum, she asks for directions out of the place.
The End.
Oh! Thank you for the nice things you wrote about my tour. I hope you liked this one, too!
Bridget
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