Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:43
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Join this
conversation
Download the Swell app and instantly add your voice.
Taking swell with me. I'm going to the Huntington Botanical Gardens, and we're going to look at beautiful things and you're coming along. So stay tuned. I just wanted to post this here so I can begin my journey. And I will swell upon swell, upon swell and show you beautiful things. And hopefully this will be the beginning of maybe people sharing their experiences at Huntington Gardens. Botanical Pardes are so beautiful because they're open to the public generally. And they're them so gorgeously
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:12
Looks like the art Gallery at the Huntington Botanical Gardens was somebody's private home. I'll take a shot of the placard and a little bit of the house behind it
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:10
I just love this Ivy. And the way it's wrapping around the door makes you want to go into the door. This door is part of the Museum that's closed because of COVID. But we're just walking through it now
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:14
This head is like the size of a small electric car. And it is just sitting in the middle of this incredible field of flowers. I don't know who made it. I probably have to look that up and I'll add to this wall later
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:49
So I just came upon this beautiful family and they're having a little food and they're hanging out. And I wanted to ask you how you're enjoying the gardens. Yeah. We are enjoying good. It's very beautiful. Yeah. And there are some places are closed, but overall, it's. It's a cool weather inside. How far did you travel to get here? We travel like, 40 miles. 40 miles? Yeah. We traveled about 20 miles
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:12
We are about to enter into the Chinese garden portion of Huntington, and there's a little girl with a camera, and she's just going nuts. And I just captured a shot of her hair. She just seems so happy
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:09
Wow. I just have to note the intricacies of the path that I'm walking on. It's just gorgeous. It's made up of little stones that make this gorgeous pattern
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:17
He's hiding in between. He's minding his own business. Or maybe hers. We don't know
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:23
Bonsai's are really miracles of discipline and trimming and never missing a day. And they just make them into these little short, magnificent trees. I'm sure I could do way better justice to how they're created, but I'm sure Googling them would be great, but I want to show you two pictures of beautiful bonsai trees
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:16
There's a great path between the Chinese garden and the Japanese garden that's filled with bamboo. And if you walk slow enough, I think you hear the bamboo talking to each other. At least I did. Here's a shot of just walking in that beautiful, beautiful. Halfway. Yeah
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:11
Another highlight of bamboo. This version is very thick and you can see how thick it is by using the hand as a reference. And there's a whole beautiful forest of them
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:06
This woman clearly has her head in the sand. But look at her pose. It's pretty perfect
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:25
There's so much to see in this photo. There are different kinds of Ficus trees. There's a bamboo bunch in the back. It's just incredible. Just Zoom in and look at the root system. It's gorgeous. And this is the sound that they make these trees. I guess it's the birds and the trees that make this sound
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:17
I think these are Canada geese, but there's a lot of them. They're hanging out right by my feet. So beautiful. Big Meadow that they're just pecking at. Just lovely. I think that I might just take one home, put in my backpack. I don't think anyone notice. Let's see if I could do it
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:08
This is a conference of Cacti. I'm walking this entire area, and this is just one of many, many shots. Just so beautiful
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:35
It's about 90 degrees. No. 91 degrees. Almost 04:00. We are done with this gorgeous walk and schmitzing, as they say. And it's been beautiful. So I hope you enjoyed it. You can come out here yourself one day. And now I'm going to decompose. That's a funny joke, because someone we passed by said, I want to just sit here and decompose. I think he meant decompress. But here's the decomposing. That's what you want to do
Theertha Panachoor
@theertha · 1:07
It's called an Echoesia. Sombrero. And yeah, I thought you would like to know it's such a beautiful flower. I put down a picture. I don't know if it's the same one, but I hope it's the same one. But thank you for taking us along and allowed how you put in the audio tips in a few swells. And the pictures are so beautiful
So I'm planning on posting most of my videos there, but I just wanted to say that this, well, kind of inspired me because there's so much to do here. There's so much scenery. There's a Lake. We just went on a nighttime hike yesterday, and it's all been really nice. So I hope that I can find the place again where I got a lot of service. And I can continue to update people on my swells and my adventures near Lake Tahoe
Theertha Panachoor
@theertha · 1:27
And when I was small, I was hiking with my dad on this mountain, and I saw a bunch of these tactics, and I started freaking out. I was like, oh, my God, I found a land coral. I found coral, and my dad was laughing and stuff. But, yeah, also, that pink flower tree is so beautiful. You're. It does look like a cherry blossom, but its bark is so smooth
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:35
But I'd have this kind of feeling about me that I was going to discover something for the first time. And it was something that was going to change the world. And I would dig. And I would look at things in a really curious way
Join this
conversation
Download the Swell app and instantly add your voice.