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Monday, February 23, 2009

bok tower gardens

David's parents were visiting us over the weekend. We love visiting new places, so we headed to the Bok Tower Gardens. It was gorgeous!

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The "singing tower" was built in 1927 and is is home to the carillon. What is that you ask? It's basically a keyboard that is mechanically attached to a set of bells. 60 of them to be exact.

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Here is the size of the largest bell.

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And here are the keys.

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The tower is built on Iron Mountain, Florida. I got a chuckle out of this. The "mountain" (290 ft.) is the tallest point in Florida, and overlooks beautiful orange groves. We enjoyed listening to carillon concert from this spot. We also spent quite a bit of time sitting at the summit reading books and relaxing.

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This place was very kid friendly. At the visitor's center, we checked out a little book bag of kids' nature books with a little picnic blanket. We also got some "magic paper."

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There were 8 posts located throughout the gardens. Each of the posts depicted a different creature.

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Here's the magic: upon rubbing the white stick on the shiny side of the paper, voila! The creature appeared. The girls eventually got tired of this, but they finished 6 out of the 8 posts.

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I had to get in at least one shot.

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Grandad and Abuela.

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21 comments:

  1. I've been wanting to go and now I NEED to go. Beautiful captures and I love all the detail.

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  2. WOW, those are great! The colors and DOF in these shots are AWESOME! TFS

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  3. These are all beautiful but that first one is ah-ma-zing!

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  4. That key shot is so artistic.. Great job capturing the bokah

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  5. Anonymous9:28 PM

    What a beautiful place! So lush and pretty. Great shots, I love the wrought iron fence photo.

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  6. Simply gorgeous shots - hard to pick a favorite, but I love the first picture, the keys and the iron fence.

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  7. Wow, what a beautiful place!!! That really sounds like a perfect day! Gorgeous shots!

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  8. These are beautiful shots!!! You did a great job!!

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  9. what an awesome location! I really like all those shots you caught--such great color too.

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  10. WOW that place looks gorgeous! very great and colorful shots

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  11. Anonymous6:27 AM

    PHEW! You ROCK these colors girl. Your focus, bokeh...everything is so lovely and bright. You always make every shot matter...and that is truly inspiring.

    Oh and if I haven't said it before, I love your blog header.

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  12. These shots are beautiful, but I just love the organ key shot - amazing.

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  13. You got some very cool shots here. LOVE your blog header BTW! I thought I was looking at Mandy's blog for a second. ;)

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  14. Wow - that is one beautiful garden!! Love these!

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  15. What a beautiful place to see. Love the reflections you captured.

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  16. You captured some awesome shots, I can't begin to pick a favorite! Although, those are some really nice reflections. :)

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  18. Wow you've captured some amazing shots! What a gorgeous place!

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  19. Wow! Great shots. I love your DOF and how you make me look twice at ordinary things. That looks like a great place to take kids! PS I love your blog banner too;-)

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  20. I love your perspective in these, and wonderful pp'ing! What an amazing place!

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  21. What a fun shot of Abuela and Miss M!

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