I'm no green thumb, but I do LOVE gardens.

As a part of the Gettysburg Festival season, which goes on for 10 days, there was a garden show, where you got to see gardens at private properties and several of the inns of Gettysburg.  The weather this day was in the 90's, which kept me from seeing all of the sites; but those I did see where really lovely.

The first site I went to was at the Getty Hotel, which had the smallest garden area, but it was really lovely.  Here is Kim, who tends this garden area.  She is standing next to an oak leaf hydrangea.  It had the most lovely light fragrance.

I next stopped at the Braferton Inn, a well-known inn enjoyed by many travelers to Gettysburg.  In their garden they used whimsical items like this old marble sink top over a kettle to display ferns and flowers.

I next went to the Brickhouse Inn which had the largest garden between two buildings that make up a part of this inn.  It had many large shade trees and a wonderful koi pond. The sound of the water was very serene.

It was a shame I could not see all of the sites, but I was worn out from the heat this day and was glad to go back to my room with its air conditioning.

Friends I have to admit sharing these pictures and adventures with you is fun, but I do have issues with trying to get blogger to cooperate.  Even though I use the arrows to position the pictures or move the cursor to add text in a pleasing fashion to make this site look good, the system just moves things around where it wants to--like the odd looking text above in between the pictures.  Every time I tried to move those few words, it would put them back in the same place; or it would begin to delete the text that followed.  I'll keep trying to improve this so be patient, friends.