The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix is a special
place. I think of the lush
Missouri Botanical Garden back home. This one shows you how beautiful plant
life can be on a trickle of water. The big draw was the Chihuly glass
exhibition. (Our garden had one two or three years ago. Everybody in the U.S.
had had one, probably. Dale is making out like a bandit.) But there is
something else worth going through on your way onto the grounds.
The DBG has a butterfly house. Not so unusual but always a
pleasure. We got into the DBG gratis because most major American gardens have
reciprocal admission privileges for members. But the butterflies aren’t free,
if anyone is old enough to remember that movie. We had to pay $3.50 each extra,
and no senior discount (harrump). It was worth it.
