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Larry Braun

Koi Pond with Goldfish

A serene garden scene features a wooden bridge arching over a koi pond, surrounded by vibrant autumn foliage. Colorful gold fish swim beneath the bridge, while diverse plants and rocks add to the tranquil atmosphere.

Dubuque Arboretum & Botanical Gardens
Dubuque, Iowa

#TravelPhotography #DubuqueIowa #GreatRiverRoad #Arboretum #BotanicalGardens #JapaneseGarden #KoiPond #Bridge #photooftheday #fediverse #fediart

fineartamerica.com/featured/ko

A serene garden scene features a wooden bridge arching over a koi pond, surrounded by vibrant autumn foliage.
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Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

The repairs of roads and bridges in the #Asheville area post-#Helene will take years, as you'd know if you'd ever seen the devastation.

Per the #AVLWatchdog
avlwatchdog.org/ncdot-permanen

And man, that horrible Federal government has done nothing but help, paying for road crews, debris removal (even in the #Arboretum, apparently) in addition to food, water and lodging.

Gods help any region when the next disaster strikes with these clowns in control.

Asheville Watchdog · NCDOT: Permanent road and bridge repairs from Helene damage will take years to completeBy JOHN BOYLE
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Megan Lynch (she/her)

I've posted photos before of these great ceramic public artworks at the UC Davis Arboretum, but today had better lighting so I took new photos.

This is a semi-circular wall of plants and insects.

Despite UC Davis being a public university, blind folks aren't really welcome - there's next-to-no Braille anywhere at the Arboretum. This is one of the few tactile works, but it's incised in Roman letters.

Detail of curved wall with one or two foot square bas-relief tile panels of various plants. Below each are flatter, less decorative rectangular tiles with the scientific binomial names. At the intersections of those, there are bas-relief tiles in the shapes of various insects (some larvae, some adults) that are usually related in some way to the plant species they're near. Nearest to us is Acanthus mollis, which features deeply lobed deep green leaves and a bit higher up and further away are the orange flowers of the California poppy.
#PublicArt#Ceramics#Sculpture
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Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

Yesterday we went back to the NC #Arboretum in #Asheville, for the first time since #Helene. The formal gardens were open, but nothing else. There was a pile of tree debris in the overflow parking area as big as 3 houses, and it was coming and going as we visited. The number of trees lost on the property is staggering.

They had several of these, which I thought was perfect.

A Drake Elm tree, broken off and splintered about 6' above the ground. It stands in a grassy area next to a sidewalk, with some white open reindeer sculptures in the background. The Arboretum was/are preparing for their Winter Lights event, their largest fund-raiser of the year. The sky is a vivid blue. The tree has a white sign on it (next photo)
The white signs has 2 sentences on it, the first in red, the second in black. "DO NOT REMOVE THIS TREE" says the first. "TREE to remain as tribute" reads the second.
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AnneTheWriter

2/2🧵 The #MortonArboretum is located in #Lisle #Illinois, a far suburb of #Chicago. It was established in 1922 by Mr. Joy Morton, the founder of the #MortonSalt company. Morton's father was J. Sterling Morton, who founded #ArborDay in 1872.

The #Arboretum is comprised of over 1,700 acres of land. All of the trees and plants are carefully chosen and tended by expert staff.

With my heel spurs and arthritis, hiking is nearly impossible, so this was a lovely way to enjoy the woodlands and the many colors of the season.

mortonarb.org/about-arboretum/

Wide-shot image of a large light-brown grassy plain in the foreground, and a long thick line of trees in the distance, covering the horizon. Almost all of the trees have changed into their fall colors, so the trees are a variety of shades of brown, red, orange, yellow, and green.
Photo of a single-lane roadway heading into a wooded area. The image focuses on the trees and brush to the left of the road. Most of the trees here are tall and have thin trunks, with ample leaves of autumn yellow and orange-brown. Some plants are still green. Some of the trees are bent over the one-lane asphalt roadway, casting their shadows along the path.
Photo of a wooded area. The foreground is full of brown, yellow, and a few orange leaves covering the ground in a thick layer. Tall, thin trees fill the background, with a little of the blue sky and some bright sunshine breaking through their fall-colored leaves and high branches.
Photo of a wooded area. To the left is a thick base of a tree. In the foreground, the ground is covered with a thick layer of leaves in a variety of autumn colors, all shades of yellow and brown. Some green plants are still visible among the leaves. In the distance, a large number of thin tall trees stretch up to fill the beautiful blue sky behind them. A little less than half of the leaves on these trees are still green, the rest are like the ones on the ground.
#Autumn#Fall#AutumnLeaves
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AnneTheWriter

1/2🧵 This past Friday afternoon was spent driving through one of several long routes in the #MortonArboretum in #Lisle, #Illinois. The fall colors and scenic tree varieties along the nine-mile route were beautiful, and my camera phone could not do them justice.

The two-head #sculpture is "Of The Earth" by artist #OlgaZiemska. The heads were "created from reclaimed and pruned tree branches and other natural materials gathered from various locations throughout the Arboretum’s 1,700 acres.“
mortonarb.org/explore/activiti

Photo of a sculpture in the middle of a mowed grassy field, surrounded by woodlands in autumn colors. The sculpture is two face profiles facing one another, with the middle of each head cut out in an eyeball shape and a silver globe hung inside each eye shape... so that the two heads also look like eyes. The sculpture is "Of The Earth" by artist Olga Ziemska. It is located in Lisle, Illinois, a far suburb of Chicago. https://mortonarb.org/explore/activities/exhibitions/of-the-earth/
Photo of short tree brush and other plants along an asphalt roadside. Some are still green, but others are in vivid fall colors of red, orange, and yellow. At least some of the plants are called "Sumac."
Close-up photo of an oak leaf that has turned red for the season.
Photo of some wild plants in fall colors. The focal point of the image is a small oak tree whose leaves have turned red for the season. Also in the image are tall wild grasses, plus a few tall prominent trees, and others in the distance whose leaves have turned yellow and light brown.
#Autumn#Fall#AutumnLeaves
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