Desert gardens

Finally I managed to visit the entirety of the Huntington's gardens. Beside the Chinese gardens, there are the Japanese with an entire Japanese house in it and a zen garden. On the way from the Chinese to the Japanese, there is the Padillon for Washing Thoughts Away, a very useful one and of course one of my favourites. However from time to time I would like there be one for putting the thoughts in order.

The authentic exotic experience are the desert gardens, Cactuses, Agaves, aloes, and all the miriades of forms those hard to kill creatures have taken. Of cactus there are all those you see in western movies and read in Tex. The tall ones ou hide behind as you approach the buffalo, the round one you cut in search of liquids under the desert sun when your horse has abandoned you.

I actually went around it in a very torrid day, with temperature above the 90 F and the sun raining down on the sparse visitors.

It felt like july in Italy and actually Agaves and aloes and some of the cactuses were quite familiar if you come from the south.

I just put here a couple of pictures, the rest you can see in the slideshow.