密歇根的地狱 Hell, Michigan

Hell, Michigan. This picture is taken two years ago (5/18/2003) when I first past Hell. This time I decided to take Mike here. It doesn't take long to go through Hell, about 20 seconds if one doesn't stop. There are 62 official residents (16 mailboxes) in town. If you send a postcard from Hell, they will burn the edges and stamp it with a Hell postmark. Give Hell a try. "It's a hell of a place, and you can find out what in hell is going on though you probably won't want to spend eternity there." (Barfknecht, in Ultimate Michigan Adventures)


Welcome to Hell, Michigan. We went to Hell just to say we've been there. We bought ice cream and a postcard.


Official Hell Weather. It is accurate for Michigan. :)


Hell made pizza and dam'd good BBQ pork sandwitches--a sign in Hell, Michigan.


Near Hell, the woods seems like paradise. We took a short hike in Pinckney State Recreation Area. This is Pickerel Lake.


Pickerel Bridge on the trail in Pinckney Park, Michigan.


A big bird near Pickerel Lake.


Michigan woods in the spring. Pinckney State Park.


A patch of new plants in the woods of Michigan. A hunter once told me they were from nuts buried by squirrels the previous winter. The squirrel fails to come back and retrieve the nuts and in the spring the plants grow. :) Tell me whether this is true.

汉庭顿图书馆 Huntington Botanic Gardens

On the right hand side, it is an Echirum wildpretii, Tower of Jewels. Huntington Library, Pasadena, California.


The most spectacular cactus displays are the 500 bright yellow spined spring flowering Golden Barrel cacti (Echinocactus grusonii), the largest being more than 85 years old.




Cactus, Huntington Library, Pasadena.


Cactus in Huntington Library.


Cactus flowers and bee, desert garden, Huntington Library, Pasadena, California.


Lizard in the desert garden, Huntington Bontanic Gardens.


Oreocereus celsianus (Old Man of the Andes) S Bolivia, Peru, N Argentina. Huntington Library Desert Garden.


Huntington Library, Desert Garden.


Plants in the desert garden, Huntington Library.


Flowers in Desert Garden, Huntington Library, Pasadena, California.


Huntington Library, visitors.


Japanese Garden, Huntington Library.


Spring impression in Huntington Library, Pasadena, California.

The Huntington Desert Garden is one of the largest and oldest assemblages of cacti and other succulents in the world. Nearly 100 years old, it has grown from a small area on the Raymond fault scarp when in 1907-1908 William Hertrich brought in plants from local nurseries, private residences, public parks, and from collection trips to the Southwest and Mexican deserts. Today the two dozen families of succulents and other arid adapted plants have developed into a 10 acre garden display, the Huntington’s most important conservation collection.