The Secret Garden

Summer evenings hereabouts illustrate our own personal theory of relativity: 97 degrees feels pretty darn good if you’re climbing out of a 104-degree hot tub. Similarly, while some Minnesota pansy might find a Flashlight Tour of Desert Botanical Garden a trifle warm, we’re doing the happy dance about getting away...

By Julie Peterson

June 4, 2009

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Summer evenings hereabouts illustrate our own personal theory of relativity: 97 degrees feels pretty darn good if you’re climbing out of a 104-degree hot tub.

Similarly, while some Minnesota pansy might find a Flashlight Tour of Desert Botanical Garden a trifle warm, we’re doing the happy dance about getting away from the asphalt and concrete and into a dark, quiet urban oasis for a couple of hours, where experts will show off birds, bugs, reptiles, and night-blooming flowers that love the night as much as we do.

Thursdays, Saturdays, 7-9 p.m. Starts: June 4. Continues through Aug. 29, 2009

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Julie has written for the Night & Day events calendar section since 2005. As a student at Arizona State, she received the Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Creative Writing Award and the Theatre Medallion of Merit.

Contact: Julie Peterson