Another Visit to Shelter Gardens

Yet another trip to Shelter Gardens. And again, there were new things to photograph. This must have been a prolific spring, as there were loads of flowers to shoot.

Lillies.

A perfect rose.

Another perfect rose.

A small rose.

A rose bud just opening up.

I think this is a day lily.

A type of Iris, perhaps.

Lillies.

Cactus blooms.

Columbine. The state flower of Colorado.

Another lily.

And another.

Something different to close the post.

More Shelter Gardens

Again I find myself at Shelter Gardens, but that's a good thing. I find new things every time I go there. Here are a few more photos from the gardens from a beautiful spring day.

Magnolia Bloom

I mentioned some time ago in a post from Boca Grande that I liked what I call texturals, and I included a photo of seashells. This is almost the exact same photo, except with flowers. Find the other photo and make the comparison.

Daffodil.

Daffodils.

And yet more daffodils.

Daffodil version 2.0

Flowering Dogwood, the state tree of Missouri.

A Dogwood flower close up.

Redbud flowers growing on the trunk.

A pathway through the gardens.

Another pathway with foreground redbud.

Another redbud tree.

More from Shelter Gardens

This spring day in 1997 was gorgeous, and called for a visit to one of my favorite places in Columbia. And since it was right next door to where I lived, it only took a couple of minutes to get there.

The main gate to Shelter Gardens.

Not the greatest photo, but I thought the plants looked cool.

A bee searches for nectar.

Another bee about to land. Note the pollen accumlation on the back legs.

A view of part of the grounds.

The old school house.

Shelter Gardens, Columbia

I used to live in an apartment complex in Columbia that bordered on Shelter Gardens. I was lucky because my apartment was right next to the gardens. You could say that the gardens were my back yard. Here are some photos from a visit there in the late summer of 1996.

An old school house was moved to the grounds of Shelter Gardens. The photo is black and white because I had a few frames left on the roll I shot earlier at Union Covered Bridge.

Black and white shot of a flower.

A brilliant red rose.

Texas does not have claim to all yellow roses.

One of the many paths meandering through the gardens.

These look like marigolds to me, but I'm not a trained horticulturist.

These look like the same type of flower as in the photo above, but they're definitely not marigolds. Maybe they're mums.

Perhaps a type of hibiscus.

Shelter Insurance, Columbia, Missouri

A visit to Columbia was included on this vacation to Missouri. I had heard that Shelter Insurance had some nice gardens, so I assumed what I found in the front of the headquarters building were them. I didn't realized that Shelter Gardens, a very large place, was just to the west of here. But, I got a few photos anyway.

Shelter Insurance headquarters.

Shelter flies the flag of each state in which they do business.

Flower in front of headquarters.

More flowers.

I thought these were interesting.

And very colorful.

Also very bright - almost as bright as bouganvillia.

Layers.