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All Photos Taken at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens Visit Macro Monday for more great macro photography

Clarkia in the California natives garden. All Photos Taken At The San Francisco Botanical Gardens Click Photos To Enlarge The Belladonna flower. Sorry, don't know what these are. Please click the above widget for more Pink Friday fun.

These photos were taken at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens. Click photos to enlarge. Was I intruding on an intimate moment here? Off to the races :D Visit Watery Wednesday for more water photography.

All photos taken by me @ The San Francisco Botanical Gardens. Three separate days and three different trees. Enjoy!

Photos taken by me @ the Botanical Gardens . The video clip below is from the gardens website and takes you on a journey through the Garden of Fragrance. The pleasurable scents emanating from this particular garden lures you through the gates as you pass through the main entrance. I have at various times tried to take videos while walking through the gardens, however, I am an amateur at best. So, I wanted to give all of you a more professional tour which is why I copied this from their website. It is informative, detailed and a beautiful display of the gardens I love. Enjoy!

All of these photos were taken by me on Monday during my visit to the Botanical Gardens. I planned on this just being a Wordless Wednesday post with photos until I visited the Gardens website and found that due to budget cuts etc... the gardens will fall to demise unless they begin charging an entrance fee. There have been mumblings and rumors about this over the past year with a lively debate. Now you all know that I am there on a regular basis. If it has to permanently close I WILL NOT be a happy camper. The gardens have always been free unlike all the other venues in that area to include the DeYoung Museum, The Academy of Sciences of which you almost have to be a millionaire to afford their entrance fees, The Japanese Tea Garden and the Conservatory of Flowers. My position is that the Botanical Gardens should begin implementing fees. Why not? Everyone else charges fees to maintain their venues. If you buy a membership to the gardens which is as low as $60.00 per year, round...