Peacocks and Lavender

After that bee and spider battle in my last post, I thought I should make it up to you.

These peacocks are in the zoo in Albuquerque. We were there for Zoo Music, a live outdoor music event held every second Friday evening during the summer. There is also live outdoor music in the botanical garden, called Garden Music, held every second Thursday. Between the two events, there’s music in the Biopark every week during the summertime.

The Albuquerque Biopark consists of a zoo, botanical gardens, and aquarium. We mostly only go to the botanical gardens. Here’s pictures from the Garden Music event in the botanical garden the following week.

Everyone was listening to the music, so the rest of the park was nearly empty.

I went for a nice walk around the park with our friend, Violet. She is Alan’s mother. You may remember Alan, he’s the one who helped us out at the beginning of the Boise roommate crisis, by finding us an attorney and generally being supportive and useful.

Alan’s wife, Chadron, is in some of my volunteer activities with me. In a way, I sort of work for Chadron – as in one volunteer working for another volunteer. It figures – I finally find a good boss but it’s just volunteer work! Dang.

Anyway, it was a beautiful evening.

The rest of these pictures are from the grounds of Los Poblanos. It’s a working lavender farm as well as an inn with a restaurant and a café. I went there once recently with a friend, and then went back with John a couple of weeks later.

A few of the areas are for staying guests only, but restaurant and café customers are free to wander around a large portion of the grounds.

I was surprised we could walk right out into the fields. Of course we stuck to the paths and didn’t trample their lavender.

These are bee hives.

Albuquerque really is a lovely place to visit. John and I are looking forward to going back to Albuquerque on vacation after getting fully moved to Tucson. Maybe we could even stay at the Los Poblanos Inn someday. They don’t allow dogs, but we could board Biska elsewhere. Being boarded for a day or two would be a super-fun sleepover treat for her. Biska absolutely loves other dogs. We regularly take her to doggie daycare in Tucson because she loves it so much.

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