So I set out today on my garden tour adventure. Since, for some stupid reason, I decided to fly to Vancouver from Portland I thought I might as well stop on the way up at Oregon’s own garden. Unfortunately it was about 1:30pm when I arrived and it was HOT. I have not perspired so profusely since last time I was on the east coast in summer.
But I had allowed myself an hour (silly me, one needs far more than an hour to do the Oregon Garden justice) and I did get some good photos but I was ready for some air conditioning by the time the hour was up. You might want to check out the first installment of my travel blog (yes, I am insane trying to keep up two daily blogs while on vacation) for this trip at http://jeannehoadley.com/Travel to learn more about the Oregon Garden.
This water lily sort of reminded me of stained glass the way the reeds divide the picture up. So, I ran it though a simplify program to try and push it a little further in that direction.