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Originally Posted by astrochex
Blue Boy’s girlfriend Pinky. The Huntington Library is a fantastic destination.
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My Stepdad was the Botanical Curator at the Huntington for several decades. As kids we used to spend holidays walking the grounds as a family, it was very cool because the place was closed on Holidays and we had the place to ourselves. There are large areas that are closed to the public that look like California did about 100 years ago. He travelled the world looking for rare species of plants (succulents were his specialty). I think he said he visited 44 countries and had several newly discovered species named after him.