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Dallas Aboretum - Dallas, Texas
October 17, 2011
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More of the color at the arboretum
[A large expans of blue daisy-like flowers with small yellow-button centers.]

One of several mounds of daisies
[A mound of yellow daisies. They were planted or grown to achieve this hemi-sphere of blooms.]

Water lily bloom
[A large, pink, multi-petaled blooms which seems more like a flower seen on land rather than one on water.]

Lily pads all growing from the same water lily plant with its one visible bloom.
[Five large green pads lipped up at the edges, one brownish pad, and one pink flower all growing from the same center in a pond rimmed with a stone wall. The trees above reflect on the pond surface.]

A few buildings of Texas Town (Buildings representing pioneer times.)
[Wooden structures copying buildings of the pioneer time.]

Inside a Texas Town building
[Wicker baskets and crocheted rugs on the floor along with wooden slat furniture and a few pictures on the walls.]

Texas Pioneer Adventure with a sod house, a covered wagon, and a tepee
[In an open expanse with a few trees nearby stands a sod house on the left and a covered wagon in front of a tepee on the right.]

Inside the sod house
[Canvas on the ceiling keeps the sod from falling in the room. A cot is on the left and a table and chairs are on the right with a open square for a window in the middle.]

Beauty and the Beast castle (One of seven fairy tale castles temporarily on exhibit.)
[Side view of this structure made to look as if it was built of stone blocks. Structure is at least 20 feet high and has long, narrow, slit openings in the wall.]

Another view of the Beauty and the Beast castle
[Front view of castle where one can walk inside and stride the length of it. A coat of arms is over the archway.]

Little Mermaid castle
[Front of a white and blue castle with a curvy top resembling waves. The side is painted with sea creatures.]

Mermaid chair in the castle
[A bench with what appears to be clear fins or wings emanating from the back behind tubes which form the back of the chair. This chair sits at one end of the castle.]

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