Glacier Gardens Metal Print

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Upside-down trees overflowing with flowering plants are prevalent throughout Glacier Gardens in Juneau, Alaska.

This lovely walkway in the lower part of the gardens is lined with lush ferns and purple rhododendrons.

There is a tram which takes visitors to the upper parts of the hillside gardens.

This unique garden was the result of a happy accident. After damaging expensive clearing equipment by inadvertently backing it into the side of a mountain, a frustrated excavator dropped a large uprooted tree into the ground, upside-down. Eventually, the idea developed of strategically positioning other uprooted trees throughout a hillside area in the Tongass National Rainforest and planting their exposed roots with ferns, vines, and flowering plants.

These out of the ordinary gardens, with their natural flower boxes, are now one of Juneau's most popular tourist destinations.

My love of photography grew out of capturing images from my travels, so photographs of beautiful and interesting places comprise a large portion of my portfolio. I am a Southern girl, and love the beauty that is in my back yard, so there are also lots of images from close to home. These include images of our beautiful Gulf Coast beaches, which I visit any time I can! I also enjoy capturing images of interesting flora and fauna, and wildlife images I am able to capture with my newest telephoto lens! I am a painter, as well as a photographer, and offer galleries of paintings and mixed media pieces. My interest in traditional art has spilled over to my post processing of photographs, and in addition to images with minimal post...