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| Although I later took this picture of a different species of flower, I
decided to put it here because they appear so similar. (The only
difference is the inner black petals.)
| The garden's fun hedge maze, as seen from slightly above. The hedges
are at least eight feet tall, meanings it's a true maze.
| A plaque about the history of mazes.
This plaque also serves as
a good example of the type of interesting plaques throughout the garden.
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| The Korean pavilion.
| A flower. Excellent for the detail on the stigma.
| Also excellent, once you discount the ant. :)
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| Richmond Public Market
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The airy Richmond Public Market. The food stalls are on the upper
level; produce, flowers, paintings, fish, and basically everything else
is on the lower level.
I like the funky statues in the middle of the market.
| Another perspective of the market. In this one, you can see ten of the
food stalls.
| Tian Jing Northern Cuisine, where I bought lunch.
If you looked
closely at the menu (see the full-sized image), you can see there are
two dishes with the same English translation of "TianJin fried shredded
pork and vegetables"! (They're the third and fourth items on the menu
hanging above the stall.) As I hadn't noticed, I was confused when the
woman asked me to clarify which I wanted. I chose the one on the
left.
| "TianJin fried shredded pork and vegetables" (the left one). Good, but
nowhere near as a good as the similar dish I had earlier at Zephyr in the Sky.
After I ordered, I heard them start cooking it fresh in the back.
Note: there's a lot of rice underneath the meat and vegetables; the
dish isn't half-meat/vegetable, half-rice as the the picture makes it
appear.
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| The milk tea stand where I bought a drink.
| I had the special, strawberry green tea with pearls (tapioca balls). I
ordered it because the sign said it was fresh and indeed it was: there
were many strawberry seed bits throughout.
| In the market below, I thought it was handy to see all the choys
(cabbage/spinachy vegetables) lined up so I could try to remember the
difference between them. They all have differently shaped leaves. This
picture, however, turns out to be pointless, as I took it at too low a
resolution to be able to see the leaves.
| More choys and the like, and again pointless.
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| Bloedel Floral Conservatory in Queen Elizabeth Park
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| The geodesic dome that houses the Bloedel
Floral Conservatory.
| Inside.
| I took this picture because I felt it conveys the feel of the
conservatory.
| I'm not sure why I took this picture. Possibly for the same reason,
though it does a poor job at it.
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| "Maria" and "Carment" are green-winged macaws (a type of parrot).
| Them again, just with my camera in a different color mode.
| Japanese koi carp.
| More koi.
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I like the texture of the flowers in the right half of this picture.
The central flower didn't come out as cool as I had hoped.
| Exotic. Erotic? Unsettling? There are many things one could vaguely
imagine this to be, yet none are quite right. Excellent, for
a reason unfathomable to me.
| Some kind of palm.
| Another bird.
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| Many types of flowers.
| And more.
| "Charlie" is an endangered Moluccan cockatoo. Excellent detail.
| An excellent photo of an orchid. It's easy to imagine a mouth,
ready to bite something, and large ears.
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| Another orchid.
| An African grey parrot.
| A yellow-crowned African parrot.
| A red-shouldered macaw.
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| A red-and-yellow bird hid in the bush, making pictures require a long
shutter speed.
| The flash makes the picture crisper but harsher.
| A video of "Art," a blue-and-gold macaw. Something about how the bird
is colored makes it appear as if its head separates from its body every
step it takes.
| A really tall cactus.
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