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Dog Days Officially End

August 27, 2013 — 1 Comment

cactus

This summer the dog membership at the Tucson Botanical Gardens has been a great benefit to our family. Each Tuesday we enjoy walking early in the morning with other member dogs and their owners in a shady oasis in the middle of town.

cool morning walk

Today is the last Tuesday of the dog membership. It rained last night, which is magical here. The garden was lovely and very fragrant for our last visit of the summer. Artemisia has always liked to eat sunflowers, which is verboten in a botanical garden, of course. As a treat and a little rule breaking on her last dog day I let her munch a couple of leaves on the bottom of a sunflower. She didn’t eat very much. She hopes to return next summer as a member dog.

: basil

: metal art

: lemongrass

: palm

: desert rose

: dog days

: investigation

: smelling the shed

: sunflower

: chomping sunflower

: eats sunflower

: metal decoration

: globe amaranth

: shade ramadas

Membership for Dogs

June 18, 2013 — 1 Comment

: new member

: shade from big trees

: garden art

: canine photo shoot

: close up

: treat

: artists drawing

: art group

: desert trail

: front exit

: exercise in the shade

: her instagram

Artemisia, red bone coon hound, is a new canine member of the Tucson Botanical Gardens. On Tuesdays dog members and their families are welcome all day. This was a very special day because professional pet photographer, Vicky Stromee was set up to take pictures against a green backdrop. She and her assistant made the shoot quick and easy. We strolled through the shady paths for a few minutes, stopping for a drink at the cafe, which was closed. She smelled the door and wished it was open. Her shady and relatively cool experience today will be followed by her card and collar ring which will arrive in the mail. The dog membership is valid May through September. We have been family members for years, and now we are officially all part of the garden family. Artemisia recommends this reasonably priced membership to all Tucson dogs because of the shade. She liked it so much she sent an instagram.