Free Night at the Museum's

This fall we participated in Denver's annual free night at the museums. This year we explored the Botanic Gardens and the Byers-Evans House Museum. We started the evening with the Botanic Gardens being it is mainly an outside museum with sculptures placed amongst pathways of trees, plants and flower. There was few blooming flowers as the season had turned with the leaves. The gardens were organized in themed sections including an herb garden and a Japanese garden beautifully accented with colored lights along pathways winding in and out of each other.

As we finished the outside garden's a sudden burst of rain flooded the grounds just in time for us to explore the atrium. Unfortunately, only part of the atrium was open for the evening.
Below is a picture of me in the garden's atrium next to a tree with one lonely fruit. It was a tough tree as we watched a dozen people come in from the rain and tug on this piece of fruit and yet it remained attached to he tree. Not sure how long it would last!

With the rain receding, we decided to head over to the Beyer-Evan's house. A historic house built in 1883 for William Byers, the editor of Denver's first newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News. In 1889, he sold the house to the son of John Evans (the second governor of the Colorado territory), William Evans, who was president of the Denver Tramway Company. The house remains in tact in the middle of the city and looks as it did over 100 years ago. It has been said the house is haunted so we were curious to see for ourselves. It was a very cool house but we determined by the end that it's not haunted, at least not for us and one visit was all we will ever need from that museum.