June Gardens

Sandy, the Tinman, Cowardly Lion and I went to the Duke Estates to see the newly renovated Japanese Gardens. Some of the old trees are amazing.Doris Duke, who was filthy rich from dirty tobacco money found plenty of creative ways to spend her spondolots. She was also a great philanthropist, endowing right and left and leaving behind this unbelievable 2700 acre tract of land with gardens and greenhouses and mansions and art collections. She even brought home an entire Thai village and tried to set it up in her indoor 3 story tennis court.Anyway theres lots of educational programs there and concerts and tours.
This is some kind of maple tree that has been trained to twist all over the place. It is guarded by a Foo Dog which they used to put outside temples.
These are my sugar snap peas that have gone berserk. They are advancing on the Egyptian topped onions, we've left Duke Gardens now as you can see. We are in the messy, semi-tended Simpson gardens where the radishes are hot, tough and twisted.
Last but not least my fancy new fish tank! Look at those snappy tangs, and yellow blunts. They just keep rolling along and I never have to feed them or scrub the algae off the sides. Hope is fascinated. She knows they are not real, but shes still not sure exactly whats going on. Is it magic?