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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 720451" data-attributes="member: 46690">Shortly before the snow comes down, and just prior to the winter light displays going up, our local arboretum is usually deserted. I like that time, because even though there are no flowers in bloom or trees in blazing colors you can still find interesting things to photograph. And there's no tourists! Best of both worlds <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Turns out they have a Japanese "torii" with devotional bell erected, appropriately enough, near the Japanese water feature and garden. I never noticed it before, so either it's new or I just couldn't see it previously through the thick foliage. With all the flowers and trees around it dead, it looked pretty dull:[ATTACH]327036[/ATTACH] But by wriggling my fat carcass between the branches of a nearby fir so the branches could frame the shot with the sun just peaking through on the upper right:[ATTACH]327033[/ATTACH]There's a statue of Pan looking down a long promodade:[ATTACH]327034[/ATTACH]But by sneaking under the "DO NOT SNEAK UNDER ROPES" sign (no tourists OR groundskeepers!) and lying down on a pile of similar colored leaves some distance away, I got what I thought was a much more interesting picture:[ATTACH]327035[/ATTACH]There wasn't much else there, other than a lot of construction equipment which would soon be used to assemble the winter light extravaganza. I assume it's all up by now, and I hope to get there sometime during the holidays. If only to see my wife wear her face warmer again:[ATTACH]327037[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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