Thompson Gypsy Adventure

From November 2009 to September 2010 Tyler and Paula will be on a grand adventure. We have lent our house to another family who need a place to live while they are building a new house, and we have hit the road. New Zealand, Australia, Texas (!), Ireland, Scotland, England, and Japan are planned.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Auckland Botanic Garden

Thursday, December 31, 2009     Auckland, New Zealand


As our last activity in Auckland we visited the Botanic Garden yesterday.  It is quite extensive and has both native New Zealand plants and traditional favorites from England.  Here is a nice little bridge on a pond, and the resident ducks.








The rose garden is particularly impressive.





This climate seems to be ideal for magnolia trees, and there are several impressive representatives of the grandiflora species.
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Midland, Michigan, United States
Tyler is a retired research scientist (PhD Chemistry, University of Illinois) who worked for The Dow Chemical Company. The last 16 years of his career he served as grants and contracts manager for Dow's External Technology program, involving Dow sponsored research grants to universities, government research contracts into Dow, and a variety of other industry/university/government research partnerships. Paula is a botanist with graduate work in plant taxonomy. She worked as a microbiology research assistant for four years while Tyler was in graduate school, then led a busy life raising 3 kids, gardening, and serving in a variety of church ministries and activities.