{"id":158,"date":"2011-06-10T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/places-that-inspire-your-inner-writer-callaway-gardens\/"},"modified":"2013-08-05T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:50:15","slug":"places-that-inspire-your-inner-writer-callaway-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Places that Inspire Your Inner Writer: Callaway Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-YTPUqCEJUiM\/TfF9rRbY3BI\/AAAAAAAAATg\/wUPoGJmtOZM\/s1600\/CallowayButterflySanctuary.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-YTPUqCEJUiM\/TfF9rRbY3BI\/AAAAAAAAATg\/wUPoGJmtOZM\/s400\/CallowayButterflySanctuary.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center, Callaway Gardens<br \/>\nPine Mountain,\u00a0Georgia\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-415esF2fOJQ\/TfF_O5Hl-kI\/AAAAAAAAATo\/JnLfZ24Y9K0\/s1600\/ButterflySymmetrical.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-415esF2fOJQ\/TfF_O5Hl-kI\/AAAAAAAAATo\/JnLfZ24Y9K0\/s320\/ButterflySymmetrical.JPG\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>According to Callaway&#8217;s website, &#8220;nature&#8217;s beauty floats gracefully through the air at this glass-enclosed conservatory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Home to 50 species of tropical butterflies, this center offers the perfect\u00a0venue to\u00a0linger along\u00a0paths\u00a0surrounded\u00a0by exotic tropical plants and fluttering butterflies, or to sit quietly,\u00a0taking photos and journaling.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been to Callaway twice &#8212; first on a wedding anniversary getaway weekend after Christmas, where my husband and I enjoyed the warm glow of Fantasy in Lights\u00ae. These photos were from a second trip &#8211;a women&#8217;s retreat through my church held in the spring.\u00a0A major highlight was a stop\u00a0at this beautiful butterfly oasis!<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot written about butterflies and their symbolism, including this <a href=\"http:\/\/magicoflife.org\/symbol.html\">Welsh website<\/a>\u00a0devoted to the Butterfly House in\u00a0Aberystwyth, Wales.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-aCGu6qlI1Bk\/TfGAhtflqmI\/AAAAAAAAATs\/JZy0Xy0UCoE\/s1600\/Red.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/-aCGu6qlI1Bk\/TfGAhtflqmI\/AAAAAAAAATs\/JZy0Xy0UCoE\/s320\/Red.JPG\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span>Interestingly, the butterfly symbolizes\u00a0change, resurrection, transformation, celebration, young love and the soul. <\/span><\/div>\n<p><span>Ron Gagliardi, in his thesis on butterfly and moths in western art and design, <\/span>wrote butterflies and moths are &#8216;nature\u2019s canvases with the gift of flight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An apt description of these unique gifts of nature.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center, Callaway Gardens Pine Mountain,\u00a0Georgia\u00a0 \u00a0 According to Callaway&#8217;s website, &#8220;nature&#8217;s beauty floats gracefully through the air at this glass-enclosed conservatory.&#8221; Home to 50 species of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,365],"tags":[529,530],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-travel-history","tag-callaway-gardens","tag-places-that-inspire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}