The "Arboretum At Penn State: Part II" Story

The Joel N. Myers Sundial designed by artist Mark Mennin
is a beautiful work of art.  It is also extremely accurate.

It was an ordinary day.  Today's story is part two of my trip to the Penn State Arboretum in State College, Pennsyl- vania.  The day was beautiful with a slight breeze and a light blue sky with wispy clouds.  Carol and I made the visit to the arboretum with our hosts for the weekend, Jerry and Just Sue. Yesterday's story dealt with the Children's Garden, while today's photo exploration of the arboretum covers the rest of the grounds that we explored by foot.  Hope you find a few flowers or trees that you find interesting.  We certainly did!  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.  PS - click on any photo to enlarge it.

The Margery Enes Smith "Soaring Waters" water sculpture.

One of many huge banana plants.

The beautiful and delicate flower is known as a Ptilotus or lamb's tail.

This bee is active on the "Pink Daimond" Panicle Hydrangea. 

Hardy Water-Lily

This is another variety of the Hardy Water-Lily with a visitor.

The Sago-Palm.  We were discussing what they do with this immense plant over the winter.

The Stonecrop flower.

The Trumpet-Vine.

Small flower but extremely bright and beautiful.  Known as the Petunia exserta.

This brightly colored flower is the "Bishop of Llandaff" dahlia.

The Coral Fountain flower. 

A Canna Lily known as Canna 'Australia.'

The simple but bright Flowering Crabapple tree.

And, perhaps my favorite flower, the East Indian Lotus.  You must click on this to see just how perfect a flower it really is.