Various Asheville photos: Part 2

I posted Part 1 (about our trip up to Asheville to see daughter's dance performance) two weeks ago, and, even though I had the photos ready, I never got back to posting them. 

The plan was that we would drop daughter off at her dorm at 4 pm so that she could get her work done and we could get home by about 8:30 pm.  However, after dropping her off, we realized that we needed a bathroom, and the Asheville Botanical Garden was just around the corner so we'd just stop there for a minute.

You know we can't just stop in briefly at a garden:

Dear husband, off to do some sketching while younger son and I wandered.  Here is his sketch post.

  
There were lots of (trilliums? trillia? trillium?  I've found all three recommended) trillium plants blooming that day.

Dear husband has gone to sleep already.  I'll ask him what these are tomorrow.

Sweet white trillium (I took a photo of the tag for these)

Bleeding heart

I love the way the white sycamore branches caught the sunlight.

We left the Garden in time to get home by 9:30. However...

... as we were approaching the town of Black Mountain, where we stayed for a wonderful vacation two years ago, I mentioned that, if we were younger and had less sense, I'd suggest a walk around Lake Tomahawk.  Dear husband said that he had been wanting to take a walk there and that we'd be tired whether we got home by 9:30 or 10:30.  Younger son, actually, almost was the only voice of reason, but he decided he'd like to take a walk too.

It was beautiful there:

Cherry blossoms framing the lake and the Seven Sisters Mountains

Fish by Dave Taylor, part of the Black Mountain Sculpture Stroll

Close up

A duck with an unusual hairdo

We got home at 10:30, but we had a wonderful day.