On the last Sunday of each year the Anchorage Garden Club hosts a free tour of local gardens. The gardens are located throughout the city and range from new flower beds created by novices to well-established gardens tenderly cared for by master gardeners. A few years ago we decided to ride our bicycles from garden to garden. We found it a wonderful way to combine several favorite activities -- biking, gardening, touring homes, route finding, and exploring new parts of our town. Now biking the garden tour is a marital tradition that trumps just about any other activity happening on that Sunday, no matter what the weather. This year we pedaled 27 miles around town and saw 13 gardens. Eight of those were in one neighborhood. The rain that had threatened since morning arrived in the later afternoon as we received a private showing of one backyard garden. We rode home in a downpour.(In the photo, Paul is sniffing the blooms of some Maltese Cross which was almost as tall as he.)
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