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Article #1604Re: Smiths. & Cherry blossoms
From: Sara Larson
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 1994 14:48
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 1994 14:48
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PETER YASUDA (peipyy@stdvax.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote: : Upriver from the Arboretum there's the Aquatic Gardens, which I : still haven't visited. I've seen the signs for it on 295, a bit : south of New York Ave. It looks like a trick to lure you into : a really bad neighborhood, but the gardens are really there, and : (I've read) really quite pretty. Different too, being aquatic : plants. : Amazing how much isolated greenery exists within the boundaries : of DC. Yes, it is amazing. The Aquatic Gardens are really great for meditative walks, and the neighborhood nearby is a regular, ordinary neighborhood, as far as I can tell. When I was there in September, there were several cookouts going on. The gardens themselves feature a lot of water lilies and other aquatic plants, and there are also several kinds of water birds (probably many kinds, but I saw several) and frogs. Very little, dime-sized frogs. This is why I call the walks there meditative---you cannot trek around at high speed and expect to see all the subtle beauty of the garden. -Sara
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fcca9,8ed6997aa58ccb17 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcca9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-04-09 07:48:00 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!demon!uknet!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!larson From: larson@cfar.umd.edu (Sara Larson) Newsgroups: dc.smithsonian Subject: Re: Smiths. & Cherry blossoms Date: 9 Apr 1994 14:48:00 GMT Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 24 Distribution: dc Message-ID: <2o6f70$c9g@mimsy.cs.umd.edu> References: <2o13rqINN33h@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <2o1ml3$faa@news1.digex.net> <8APR199413063016@stdvax.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: parmenides.cfar.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]