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Flower power at the Atlanta Airport

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Traveling can get pretty hectic, so Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is encouraging passengers to stop and smell the roses.

Or at least stop and look at some incredibly real-looking photographs of flowers from the “Les Fleurs Photographic Collection,” by Georgia artist Barry Taratoot.

To photograph the plants, Taratoot placed them against solid-black backgrounds and “without trickery or modern technical manipulation,” somehow made the plants look like paintings. But they’re not.

Go see for yourself. The exhibit is on display in the ATL Airport Atrium through May 16, 2012.

Gardening at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway Airports

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A Green Gardens exhibit is on view at O’Hare and Midway International Airports through Monday, April 9 that “re-purposes” some of the floral displays that were on view at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show held at Chicago’s Navy Pier in March.


A series of window façade replicas with window box floral displays from Chicagoland nonprofits, are featured at both airports and, at O’Hare, there’s a replica of the White House Kitchen Garden, with raised beds to show off the ideas of growing fresh, organic, local food that are part of the First Lady Michelle Obama’s childhood anti-obesity initiative.

Vertical hydroponic gardens, which demonstrate how vertical gardens can provide compact and efficient growing space, reduce noise and improve indoor air quality, are on display at both airports.

At Midway, the Green Gardens exhibit is located on the upper level ticketing area. At O’Hare, the exhibit is in Terminal 2, post-security, next to the Kids on the Fly children’s play area, and in Terminal 3, between Concourses H/K and L, post-security.

Photos courtesy: Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA)/kp

World’s largest miniature airport

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Hamburg, Germany has a popular tourist attraction called the Miniatur Wondurland.  It offers visitors the largest model train exhibit in the world, a miniature carnival, several countries in miniature and, now, the Knuffingen Airport, which is being billed as the world’s largest miniature airport.

It cost about $5 million to create and has more than 100 aircraft (many move around – and take off), 15,000 figurines, 500 cars, and 10,000 trees. It’s adorable and incredible.

Here’s a video:

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Here’s the 33-foot-long Yangchuanosaurus dinosaur skeleton at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. It’s on loan from the Fernbank Museum of Natural History and is in the Atrium in airport’s main terminal.

Yangchuanosaurus dinosaur skeleton at ATL

(Photo courtesy: ATL)

Here’s the 15 foot tall, 30-foot long Tyrannosaurs rex at Pittsburgh International Airport. Look for it airside, as you enter or leave the people-mover trains.

Here’s an allosaurus, one of the dinos at Toronto’ s Pearson International Airport.

And here’s the much-loved brachiosaurus outside the Field Museum store at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport

DINO AT O'Hare

(Photo courtesy Flickr user ProStaK

Snack Saturday: holiday tamales at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

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If you don’t make your own holiday tamales or know someone who does, then consider making a stop at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

As they do each year, the folks at El Bravo (Terminal 4, in the D concourse) are selling their popular holiday tamales in special holiday bags.

On the menu: green corn chicken, green corn vegetarian, red beef tamales and the seasonal specialty: sweet bean. All are available frozen.

And while you’re at PHX, take a moment to check out the airport’s bug exhibit.

According to the exhibit notes, Arizona has the richest natural endowment of insect life – including America’s biggest, strangest, most beautiful and most poisonous bugs.

The photos and the bug specimens in “Arizona’s Bizarre and Beautiful Bugs” are provided by Kim Wismann, American Home Naturalist, Tempe, Arizona, and will be displayed in a Terminal 3, Level 2, garage exhibit case through April 2011.