September trip to MBG

It was 95 last Sunday, so we went to MBG when it opened. Even so, it was pretty warm by the time we left.  It was still a nice day though and we saw some interesting things that we may not have seen before (but that might be hard to believe!!)
We went in the Climatron.  We hadn't been in there since they took all the glass down.  Surprisingly, it doesn't look like they had kept any of it

Found this pumpkin statue over by the Kemper Center.  They must be getting ready for the Halloween event

Root system of Arline's tree.  We went over to the Japanese garden to feed the coy because Arline had some quarters and Maggie loves to feed them

The water lilies are at their best at this time of year

The lantana have been crazy everywhere this year.  These have grown so much, you can hardly see the pond behind them!!!

Flowers of the Climatron

The colors of Fall

There aren't many plants in bloom right now.  The garden is definitely going into /Fall mode, but some are still going strong.  The asters at the bottom of the rain garden have bloomed again, I should have staked them up so they would have looked better!!!!

I took this picture of the Caduceus statue on campus.  They planted a few tiny plants at the beginning of the growing season and they have gone crazy.  I'm beginning to wonder where the radioactive waste is going.......

I saw these mushrooms last week in a lawn down the street from us.  I thought they looked rather nice

School days........

The kids are doing well in school this year.  I have done Maggie's IEP meeting and Ben's is coming up soon.  Ben is doing amazingly well at getting up at 5am to get to SouthTech.  They have started wearing their scrubs every day now.  Sam took this photo on the first day he wore them.

Maggie's grade went to Camp Lakewood for 3 days.  The school posted some pics of the kids doing their team building activities.  I copied all the ones with Maggie in them