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posted: March 31st, 2012 |
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This page begins and ends with March 3rd and a trip to Jindai Botanical Garden. Just to refresh your memory - Jindai Botanical Garden is about a 15 minute bicycle ride from our apartment. Click on any thumbnail to begin. |
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On March 3rd Kazuya and I rode our bicycles to Jindai Botanical Garden to check on the progress of spring flowers, specifically the Plum Blossoms. In this row are 3 photos of Plum Blossoms. These were taken with my new Fujifilm FinePix HS20EXR Camera. I was not happy with this camera for several reasons and ended up returning it. I won't go into the reasons I was unhappy with it here.
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Here are 3 more Plum Blossom photos.
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Here are 2 Plum Blossom pictures and a photo of a red flowered Hamamelis sp. bush and it's flowers.
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In this row are 3 photos of Hamamelis sp. flowers - one yellow colored and 2 red flowered ones.
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Here are 2 shots of Adonis amurensis and a final shot of Hamamelis sp. flowers.
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Here is a final shot of Adonis amurensis, a shot of a Bonsai Tree on display at the indoor display area and a shot in the tropical plants greenhouse of Strongylodon macrobotrys.
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Here are 2 shots of Strongylodon macrobotrys. After we finished up at the Botanical Garden we went out and went to the Shrine Area. We were not aware, but it was the day of the Daruma Doll Festival. For more information on Daruma Dolls please Google it.
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Here is an additional shot of Daruma Dolls, a shot of the crowd milling around for the Daruma Doll Festival and an image which was taken from my original Forest Resource & Allowable Cut: Fairbanks Working Circle report, which I created while working as an Inventory Forester for the State of Alaska Division of Forestry. This report was created back in 1980. I had a PDF of this report and I took the cover image and cut this portion out of the report cover and then used the magic eraser in Photoshop to erase ALL of the background so that the image background could then be colored any color I wanted it colored. I used this image on the cover of the re-published report referred to above, which is now available as a Kindle Edition HERE in case you want to take a look at it. I am also working on a print edition of this report, which I hope will be available within a month.
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After we finished up looking around the Shrine Area we went back into the Botanical Garden (we have annual passes, so we can come and go as many times as we want to) and we found this River Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) which was rather cooperative and allowed us to get some decent photos. That ends our outing of March 3rd.
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