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W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory, May 2018

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W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory, May 2018

Anytime I find myself in Tacoma, Washington, I make a point of visiting the W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Wright Park. The building is filled with beautiful, interesting plants (many with dazzlingly flowers). It's one of Tacoma's best rainy day spots for a photographer like me, but on the day Elaine and I visited in May 2018 the weather was spectacular, so we were able to wander around the adjacent Wright Park. It is home to a number of interesting statues, including a bust of the playwright Henrik Ibsen. 

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W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory, June 2017

In Wright Park in Tacoma, Washington, sits a fabulous little glass building called the WW Seymour Botanical Conservatory. They pack the space to the gills with exotic plants of all shapes and sizes. These images are from a visit in June 2017...

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W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory, June 2017
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Shore Acres Cliffs, December 2018

The most interesting aspect of the sandstone cliffs is how the water and wind erode the rock into bizarre, alien shapes most succinctly described as “like Swiss cheese”…

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Shore Acres Cliffs, December 2018
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W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory, Tacoma: Nov 2015

In November 2015, I worked with Travel Tacoma to promote tourism to the area, and this is my first blog post about that trip.  Where to start? Well, as no visit to that area of Washington is complete without a quick stop at least at the W. W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Wright Park, let's start there.

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W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory, Tacoma: Nov 2015