Seoul Land and Roses

by R. Elgin on June 3, 2010

Now is the prime season for roses at Seoul Land Park and election day was the perfect day to take a short trip there to see the roses after voting.
There is a large selection of roses and different flowers such as peonies and right now is peak season in the park. Any number of artists can be found, painting away and answering questions about their work. Sleeping fathers lie around in abundance while their kids bang on their dad’s head with plastic bottles, hoping dad will wake up and play. There is even a stream that kids can cool their feet in.
If you go to see the roses, go by this weekend and take a picnic since this is the season. Seoul Land’s website is here.

Tagged as: Roses, Seoul Land

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1 robert neff June 3, 2010 at 12:44 am: Very pretty…..
2 R. Elgin June 3, 2010 at 12:46 am: Thanks Robert. It is lovely out there.
I wish I could get these “vspace” and “hspace” tags to work better in the HTML though. Wordpress seems to have problems with formatting and I have to cheat by adding live space to the image.
3 CactusMcHarris June 3, 2010 at 2:47 am: R. Elgin,

Thanks for the post – I would if I were there. In the meantime, my roses have yet to form buds and my peonies are budded but flowering’s delayed due to the rainy late spring we’re having.
4 MrMao June 3, 2010 at 8:37 am: Sleeping fathers lie around, not lay. Lay is the past tense of lie, but the rest of the sentence is in present simple so it should be lie. You can of course lay me down, but they are simply lying down. They are not laying anything or anyone other than themselves, so they are lying around. Come on, man. Get it right.
5 R. Elgin June 3, 2010 at 9:24 am: “Mao”, can you be helpful without adding that negative vibe?
6 Gregory Curley June 3, 2010 at 11:15 am: Can we all come together now and clap for the genius that is MrMao? I look forward to your ‘Grammar Essentials’ book signing event, MrMao. Knob.

Fine photo set, R. Elgin. I just may get to Seoul Land this weekend. I haven’t been in ages, but it’s a great place.
7 R. Elgin June 3, 2010 at 11:38 am: Seoul Land is nice and worth visiting for the flowers. The only negative thing about it is the EXTREMELY LOUD and INCESSANT crappy entertainment they try to put on in the area while, at the same time, playing the same obnoxious muzak that is piped everywhere at the Olympic Park though speakers hung on lamp posts.
Like the clueless idiot politicians that blast people with the sound trucks before elections, Seoul Land management needs to stop doing the same thing to the park patrons.

P.S. Thanks George for the kind thoughts.