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Dixon Museum and Garden
I have lived here for many years and driven past the entrance to this place hundreds of times, always telling myself "I'd like to go there some time". So today we actually did go. It is still a bit early in the season, but what is blooming already makes the park / garden colorful. It was a nice walk along the paths.
The Azaleas are not quite in their prime, another two, three days, perhaps. They are beautiful flowers and everything looked fresh after one week of almost constant rain.
Another kind of Azalea, looks almost like honeysuckle.
I have to expose my ignorance, I don't know what this tree is called. (My wife called to me from her study across the hall: "It is Dogwood!" I didn't know that she was monitoring my efforts :) Thanks, honey.)
The park doesn't have many straight, paved paths, this is one of the exceptions, most paths are just gravel or dirt, adding to the impression that you are walking in a deep forest.
Many trees must be over a hundred years old. Some of them had these big "mushrooms" - I'm sure there is a proper word for them - on their trunks
Some Magnolias are blooming, too.
I think I prefer the small flowers, growing along the paths, before the spectacular Azaleas anyway.
Swedish colors
One of many paths that we didn't walk today, the park is really huge.
This is an example of a different idea. I found Cabbage, Parsley and Lettuce mixed in with the flowers, it doesn't look bad at all.
An anonymous flower
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