Vacation - Part II

After lunch on Sunday, I drove to Janesville to visit my cousin, Gordon, and his wife, Barb. I had not seen them for several years and had never been to their home.


Gordon has a really cool garden train set up. There are several trains that go around the different tracks. The tracks go all over the back yard (they live in a wooded area just outside of town). It is just an amazing thing to see, especially if you like trains (I do!) I took quite a few picture of it, of course.

Here one of the trains is going over a tressel he built in the yard. There are many interesting items in the yard, such as a box car with a couple of hobos playing "oh Susanna", a frustrated sounding elephant roaring in the circus train, a bear standing on top of one of the caves that the train goes through. At night the trains go into the round house. The trains are taken into the basement in winter, but the track stays out year around.

Rotary Gardens - Janesville, Wisconsin

On Monday, after a scrumptious breakfast, we went to the botanical gardens in Janesville. This was a really gorgeous place and so many flowers were blooming.


They had benches around the gardens with nature/environmental sayings carved into them. I was really enthralled and took picture of some of them. Here is one of them. At the gift store Gordon found a book with all the saying it in and he bought it for me. Now I don't need the pictures.