The Terrace Gardens are the historic heart of Duke Gardens. Topped by a wisteria-covered pergola, the Terrace beds are filled each season with marvelous combinations of bulbs, annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses, trees, and shrubs. Container plantings complement the landscape designs.
Mix of Colors
As one enters Noah’s world aboard the massive Ark, three decks are filled with scores of world-class exhibit bays. These stunning exhibits allow one to experience what Noah’s life may have been like.
Deck 1 immerses guests in the size and scope of the biblical ark as visitors walk through a storage area and learn about animal kinds. Deck 2 focuses on the pre-flood world, animal concerns, and an exploration of Noah and how God could have prepared him for his monumental task. Deck 3 covers plausible living quarters for Noah and his family, flood geology, post-flood events, and a unique Museum of the Bible exhibit.
Noah’s Ark had 1,398 kinds of animals and 6,744 animals. The chart below shows how many things could fit inside the Ark. The ARK displays a variety of distinct animals (such as the one shown below) and numerous types of containers closely resembling Noah’s Ark.
Animals on the Ark
Animal from the Past
Storage Containers for Insects
Storage Containers
The word “Bon-sai” (often misspelled as bonzai or banzai) is a Japanese term which, literally translated, means “planted in a container”. It has been around for well over a thousand years. The ultimate goal of growing a Bonsai is to create a miniaturized but realistic representation of nature in the form of a tree. Bonsai are not genetically dwarfed plants, in fact, any tree species can be used to grow one.
The Triangle Bonsai Society displayed an amazing array of bonsai carefully pruned plants in the Doris Duke Center at Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham, North Carolina. The 2-day exhibit included more than 40 bonsai created in multiple styles from a wide range of plant species, including maple, azalea, pine, elm, juniper, bald cypress, crabapple, ficus and more. We will post some images from our visit there on July 6, 2024.
A Bonsai Tree
A fully loaded container ship travels to the Charleston harbor to supply goods to South Carolina
Among the largest floating cranes in the world, “Titan” was built by Hitler’s Germany and claimed by the United States as war booty. Titan entered service in Panama in 1999 after having served for 50 years in Long Beach, California. The crane can be floated into the locks of the Panama Canal and is used for the heavy lifting required to maintain the doors of the locks of the canal. It can lift 350 metric tons and is one of the “strongest” cranes in the world.
Titan Crane
Container cranes (also container handling gantry crane or ship-to-shore crane) is a type of large dockside gantry crane found at Panama Canal container terminals for loading and unloading containers from container ships.
A Lineup of Cranes
A giant cargo container ship barely fits through the old locks at Miraflores on Panama Canal.
Barely Fits