November 25 -- botanical garden, part 5, and the rest of the day

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More and more different leaf shapes.

Love the overlap/intertwinement.

This doesn't grow outdoors, around here.....

The person who took these pics did a stupendous job, don't you think?  Their eye is wonderful (and their equipment is good, too!).

My usual "doing what I can with what I have" attempt at the same subject.  Notice that I managed to find a less-busy background for the twirly stuff.

Closer crop.  Oh, look, this is two tendrils, coiling together!  Never saw that, until this hit "the big screen."

There are a few small "ponds" in the conservatory.  This one is right inside the main doors.

See the tendril poster, at the top of the next pic?

I bet I've seen rice growing, in person, before, but I don't remember it.

Another beautiful day.  Happy sigh.

I decided to go to the Humane Society of Huron Valley, which is on the same (big!) piece of property as the Botanical Gardens.  The family which once owned the land donated some to the Humane Society, and a much bigger piece to the University, for the Botanical Garden.

I hadn't been inside the Humane Society's new building.  It is much nicer and much bigger than the old building.  I talked to some nice cats through the bars (sanitizing my hands in between, as requested), and then I went in the dog section.  In sharp contrast to my memory of the older building, it was pretty quiet.  I heard a couple of dogs bark, a bit, but mostly, it was quiet.

The coolest new thing in the dog section is that they are measuring each dog's daily ration of kibble into a plastic container on the outside of its door.  People are encouraged to feed the dogs (each dog its own food, only).

What an excellent idea!!!  Dogs who may have had unhappy experiences with people are now learning that random strangers can be the source of goodness!  Not to mention the dogs' days are less boring than they would be if mealtime lasted 5.3 seconds rather than being spread out through the afternoons!

Of course it would be best if people knew to only feed a four-feet-on-the-floor QUIET dog....

Most of the dogs in our shelter are pit bulls, or bully-breed mixes.  One of them, with the typical very wide head, and resulting very wide grin, knew that if she sat, she was more likely to get treats.  She sat, grinning hugely, and wagged and wagged and wagged.  What a good dog!  I told her she was a goooooooooooooooooooood dog, with a gooooooooooood sit!, and gave her two or three treats at once -- a mini-jackpot for good behavior.

It didn't occur to me to take her pic, or even note her name. I believe this is that very good girl.  I copied this pic from the HSHV PetFinder page for Joy -- what a good name for that nice girl.  If you click on her pic, you'll see her info, including another pic with that big smile I mentioned.

In this pic, you can tell from her expression that she is attentively Sitting, waiting for a treat.

Back to the topic of feeding the dogs -- it's got to help them get adopted, if they are quietly, happily, attentive to people walking through....

There were a lot of people at the Humane Society, the day after Thanksgiving.  I know a bunch of cats were going home.  I hope some dogs did, too!  !!!

For reasons that escape me, I never thought to take pics inside the shelter.

This is outside the shelter, on the way back to the car.

Walking, after I got home.

A branch fell out of a locust tree.  Its seedpods happened to be brightly backlit.

Pleased with this capture!

Late afternoon on a gorgeous day.

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