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BROOK_040501_0837.JPG: Bruce Guthrie @ Brookside Gardens
BROOK_041106_024.JPG: Since Montgomery County suffered a disproportionate number of the murders in the sniper siege of 2002, they decided to put a memorial to the event at the gardens.
BROOK_041106_027.JPG: During the summer and fall in 2002, the senseless violence of two men caused the deaths of thirteen innocent people. Although the tragedies occurred in several parts of the country, sniper fire in the Washington, D.C. area abruptly ended the lives of ten men and women. The stones here, engraved with the names of those ten, bear witness to the fact that they lived and worked among us -- and they are not forgotten. Their lives, each unique but all too short, are forever part of our collective story. This place also honors the kindness of so many who supported their families and whose active compassion still strengthens the bonds of community.
Wikipedia Description: Brookside Gardens
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Brookside Gardens (50 acres) are public gardens located within Wheaton Regional Park, at 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, Maryland. The gardens themselves are open daily without charge. However, certain annual events there are held that may charge a nominal fee.
Major features of the garden are as follows:
* Aquatic Garden – water-loving plants with two ponds and gazebo.
* Azalea Garden – over 300 varieties of azaleas represented by 2,000 plants. Also rhododendrons, witchhazels, hollies, Japanese andromeda, sweet-box, skimmia, and shade-tolerant perennials.
* Butterfly Garden – Seasonal in summer only. Admission fee.
* Children’s “Fairy Folk” Garden
* Conservatories – seasonal displays and special exhibits. The surrounding garden contains a collection of unusual conifers and groundcovers.
* Fragrance Garden
* Gude Garden – a Japanese-style landscape with bamboo, beech, unusual conifers, dogwood, and groundcovers, as well as an island teahouse overlooking the ponds.
* Maple Terrace – raised beds within a planting of ‘Suminagashi’ Japanese maples.
* Nature center – with exhibits on local wildlife. Parking lot has a separate entrance.
* Perennial Garden – wisterias, roses, Jasmine stephanense, buddleia, and Prunus x cistena, allium, geranium, sedum, panicum, lespedeza, calamagrostis, anemones, asters, acanthus, and agastache, etc.
* Reflection Terrace – a memorial to the ten individuals killed in October, 2002 by the Washington snipers.
* Rock Garden – spring flowering bulbs with grasses and conifers.
* Rose Garden – all types of roses, including hybrid tea, rugosa hybrids, grandiflora, English, miniature, floribunda, shrub, groundcover, polyantha, climber, Gallica, hybrid musk, and the garden rose.
* Trial Garden – spring flowering bulbs, then summer displays of new and unusual plant varieties,.
* Woodland Walk – forested wetland w ...More...
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2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras.
Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival.
Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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