Friday, April 23, 2010

The Montreal Botanical Gardens and others




Yesterday was a trip to the Montreal Botanical Gardens, this was something to say the least. While driving there one could see so many large historical Churches truly amazing to me. Before arriving at the gardens there was time to walk the streets of this one area that was just outside of Montreal city itself and fortunately I was able to get into the only art deco church of Montreal. So parts of it were in the midst of having some refinishing done and as well some construction. However it was amazing. Then to see the Olympic Dome of 1976 which is right across the street from the Botanical Gardens was all too complete. Oh I miss my Nikkon! The Montreal Botanical Gardens have 4 segments to them each is of a culture. I focused on the Spanish and Japanese and then there was the Butterfly pavilion....wow. I have never seen anything like it before nor have I see the amount of cameras that certainly ranged from 500 dollars to 10,000 dollars easy. Yet it`s all within the capture and here are a few...

32 comments:

  1. I love waterfalls that is so pretty

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  2. Oh wow looks like the leader dog in training my daughters friend had at the dorms..they were allowed to keep it because it was a leader dog and my husband and I used to have a yellow lab too , wonderful dogs.

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  3. great pics hon! looks like a wonderful day!

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  4. These are MIRA dogs. This one was working so we could not touch it. They are trained to help the blind people or disabled people in their daily errands - they assist really the disabled people and are certainly one of a kind in what they do.

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  5. I am not sure if or whom recalls the 1976 Summer Olympics but this is the dome from which it all took place.

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  6. This was and it`s not as easy now as it seems as literally you are introducing yourself in french. I saw the kids and I thought that I would ask the teacher if I could do this and it certainly was.

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  7. Now this person was truly a decent man we literally were able to talk he knew some english and I knew some french so there was dialogue however I didnt know how to say, `` I would certainly like to have a camera like yours sir. `` But I would...:)

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  8. I always find doorways interesting.............great shot

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  9. Always like the way you see the architecture.

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  10. wonderful, I've always fancied having a go at groowing one of these but never have................maybe one day

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  11. nice close up.............looks almost alien

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  12. some sort of 'air' plants that need no soil??.............very nice what ever it is

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  13. must be a huge [place to have rivers and waterfalls inside.................looks like a great place.

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  14. this looks like an interesting little corner

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  15. not sure what this is but it looks interesting..............

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  16. more interesting architecture, like the carved angels guarding the door

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  17. the interior of this church looks lovely, some beautiful detail here.

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  18. Thanks for this, always enjoy your photos.

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  19. It`s the only art deco church within Montreal it truly was amazing Loretta...

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