Labor Day - Day 2

After our Adventure up to Indiana and Michigan we thought that for day two we should check out something in Illinois.  

So we headed to the train station and took a train north to the Chicago Botanic Garden! 

Olgavie Station

We arrive - what a cute station!!

Ok - now let me tell you what this trip was really about....Picture taking!! Forrest is now getting into using my old Pentax and I use my digital camera. Therefore, you are going to see lots of pictures of different flowers because I was messing around with settings and stuff trying to perfect the lighting, etc.

It was nice because they had a shuttle bus from the train station to the gardens

 Here's a map of the gardens which turned out to be a lot larger than we had expected!

The entry...

we couldn't believe how much water there was!

Tons of Weeping Willows - love 'em!

What a Beautiful bridge!

There were some beautiful water lily's

Loved the gourds (sp?)!

pretty flowers

 

This is my attempt to get the sharp foreground with the blurry background... not bad - but not a totally clean shot -

This was my attempt at showing how massive this arbor was.

I loved all the different types of grasses.

Didn't expect to see this guy!

How cute is he?

I think I'll leave him here!!

believe it or not we spent hours going through here and only saw some of the gardens - and lucky for you these are only some of my pictures!! :-)  I hope you guys enjoy these.  On day 3 we stayed home because we were so tired of running around!!  Hope all of you had a great Labor Day -

XOXO  Mary