Holden Arboretum

Last Tuesday, we went to check out Holden Arboretum. Neither Crystal or I had ever heard of it before. I found out about it because Cleveland has one of those city passes for tourists and it was linked to from there. Now I feel I've been missing out on something for the past six years because I really enjoyed this place.

The best part of the arboretum was the butterfly garden. Even though there was not nearly as many butterflies as I would have hoped for, there were tons of beautiful flowers.






The arboretum was brimming with wildlife. Chipmunks, squirrels, frogs, dragonflies, and a family of geese and their goslings. I thought we gave the geese a fair amount of distance but as we were walking away from them there was definitely a goose sound that could only be interpreted as "you better walk away, you don't want a piece of me".


The ponds were teeming with frogs of every stage. Schools of the recently hatched, big tadpoles with and without limbs, and mature frogs.


It was a great day and it makes me think I've probably been missing out on some other cool things to do around Cleveland.

As a bonus, here is a cute picture of our friends' son, Owen.


jwotd: hiko = boy