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Electronically reprinted from February 2012<br />
February 2012<br />
van chaplin<br />
Daffodils are<br />
the centerpiece<br />
at Gibbs Gardens<br />
in Ball Ground,<br />
Georgia<br />
Millions of blooms in<br />
sinuous sweeps hug<br />
wooded Georgia hills<br />
in springtime.<br />
Here<br />
Comes<br />
theSun<br />
in the works for three decades,<br />
an astounding garden is ready for visitors,<br />
and you’re the first to see it<br />
by steve bender photographs by ralph anderson and van chaplin<br />
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panish conquistadores<br />
made one tiny blunder when they<br />
were searching for El Dorado, the<br />
fabled city of gold. They turned<br />
south when they should have turned<br />
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