Hey everyone!! We are getting settled here in Virginia and starting to explore. Last weekend we went to the National Arboretum in D.C. It was great and we only saw about a third of it. It is rather large and has a bonsai museum there too. It was also free! So we will definitely be going back to see the other two thirds.
Matt was rather excited about these plants, they are carnivorous plants that eat insects! There was a variety of them including the Venus Fly Trap.
We only got to see the columns from a distance because some band was doing a photo shoot. They look cool though, not certain what they are for or anything.
Ahhh. The wonderful bonsai museum It was rather extensive with collections from Japan, China and North America.
This tree is over three hundred years old. It dates back to 1625! And is from Japan. Wow this tree is older than our country.
This is a Japanese White Pine. We saw many trees that were
a hundred or more years old.
This bonsai was created by the father of North American bonsai,unfortunately we forgot to get his name.
It is amazing how they can train the roots of trees to grow around rocks like this one.
We also went to a wine festival this past weekend. Many Virginia wineries were featured at this festival that is one of the largest wine festivals on the East Coast.
Here I was a volunteer at one of the seminars about aromas in wine and learning
to distinguish what my personal preferences were in wine.
You can only do so much wine tasting then it just becomes too much! There were well over 100 wineries there and when you set your glass down and ask to start with their white wines they will take you through their whole wine list if you let them. After visiting a few booths like that and you can guess my head may have been spinning!
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