One of our first stops

...will be Oklahoma City where we will vist the Myriad Botanical Garden, a huge tropical garden downtown which features a "Crystal Bridge," actually a tropical conservatory, depicted in this photo gallery. Lots of orchids and the like inside - and one of those big stinky "corpse" flowers similar to the one that bloomed about 4 years ago at the UW. It is an Amorphophallus titanum. Examination of the etymolology of the name is interesting in itself: from the Greek "amorpho" means "without shape" and "phallus" speaks for itself, while "titanum" is, of course, "large" e.g. "Titan." Gardening is so wholesome.