Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Callaway Gardens

Callaway Gardens, located about 1 hour south of Atlanta, is a beautiful park full of many flowers, gardens, hiking trails, ponds, nature trails, beach, chapel, golf coarse, tennis center, foliage and more. It's a non profit organization involved with conservation, and research on plants and wildlife. Open to the public, it provides education for understanding the "living world".

Doesn't Delton look colorful among the flowers!!!!!!!

We took our bikes and rode around the 8 mile trail circling the park. Passing many flowers and plants, we made our way through the nature trail, stopping along the way to admire many of the gardens of flowers and vegetables.

The Butterfly Garden was an indoor garden full of tropical butterflies and greenery. It was hard to get pictures of the butterflies in flight. They were flying all around us. Pictured are some of the butterflies on fern plants.

We attended an outdoor show on Birds of Prey and learned a lot about owls and falcon. Sometimes we had to be careful and duck as the birds flew over our heads to their trainer. We were disappointed that the eagles were on their day off! The birds were not on any kind of leash, so it was surprising that they did not fly away into freedom. Guess they liked the FOOD service!

The Parrot Encounter show was a one on one presentation between the parrot and it's fans. Pretty Bird!

While in the area, we were able to have diner with Delton's brother, Steve, who is a career Air Force Lieutenant Colonel based in Alabama.