2023 Road Trip: Botanical Garden of the Ozarks (5/10/2023)

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 (continued)

Per the Treasurer's Office guard who allowed us to hold
$600,000 at the Arkansas State Capitol, we had lunch at
C J's Butcher Boy Burgers in Russellville, AR

Which meant we were having burgers for lunch!

C J's Butcher Boy Burgers interior

Prepared to make a bunch of burgers

Hand-cut fries and 1/3-pound burger

Now for the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks (2007), where admission was free with our Tyler Arboretum membership.

Rock & Water Garden (KSS)

One lone bud of the Nymphaea/Water Lilies

Rose Garden with unusual purple roses:
Rosa 'Cardinal de Richelieu'

Rose and Perennial Garden with
the Rotary Peace Arbor in the background (KSS)

Dried Allium seedheads

Bellis perennis/Meadow Daisies with pink edges

Ozark Native Garden

Clematis 'Happy Jack' (KSS)

Iris sibirica

Rotary Peace Arch

Four Seasons Garden display of Constructions
(by Frank Goff) (KSS)

Four Seasons Crown Arbor is covered
with American Wisteria (KSS)

Wisteria frutescens/American Wisteria (KSS)

Clematis 'Rooguchi'

One of many sculptures of
children throughout the garden

Thuja occidentalis 'Fire Chief'/
Fire Chief Arborvitae (KSS)

First of a group of three

Second of a group of three (KSS)

Third of a group of three

Butterfly House

Flower of the Asimina triloba/Pawpaw

Kiwanis Reading Railroad that was created to promote
literacy (get it? Reading Railroad...)

Sculptures at the Children's Garden

Tamiko entering the Vegetable
and Herb Garden (KSS)

Vegetables were planted everywhere (KSS)

Modular metal raised garden beds (KSS)

Tyson Chicken Coop

Kent and Tamiko at the Entry Garden

We continued to Rogers, AR to visit with Tamiko's father's cousin Carol M. Tamiko may have last seen Carol 60 years ago, but Carol had more in common with Kent as they both had lived at the same Air Force Base in Japan, perhaps overlapping by one year. I had family documents to hand over to Carol, who is the geneaologist for Tamiko's maternal grandmother's side of the family.

Carol accommodated our request to go to the iconic
Monte Ne Inn for dinner

Monte Ne Inn (1971) is named for a nearby resort that
was not entirely successful, and is now mostly underwater
(Beaver Lake, created by a dam of the White River)

We started with a crock of bean soup

Then came a loaf of bread with apple butter, fried chicken,
mashed potatoes and cream gravy, cole slaw, green beans,
and corn; we passed on dessert, since Carol had
scrumptious Bundtinis at home!

Many thanks to Carol for her wonderful hospitality, great stories about family, tips for our trip, and more!

Tamiko and Carol (KSS)

A rare Utagawa Hiroshige print labeled Scene at Kasumigaseki
(1854, from Famous Places of Toto [meisho]/
Eastern Capital), originally titled Kasumigaseki shinkei/
True View of Kasumigaseki (printed by Arita-ya Seiemon)

Next: The Momentary.