Birds and butterflies
A bunch of photos from the butterfly gardens here. About half of these photos I took and the other half my sister took. Hers are generally better than mine, but if you can guess which I took and praise those more — well, it’s *my* blog, right?
The first few rooms are filled with butterflies everywhere. Since it was cool, they were really active, more than in the other butterfly gardens I’ve been to.
They also have these odd flowers. Very few of them were in bloom, but some were.
There was also a hummingbird room.
They are cool birds. We once had a hummingbird feeder, but I guess we’re too far north.
And roses!
Roses that don’t die immediately, either because I can’t keep plants alive or, my new favourite excuse, because my cats like to munch on any plants they ever see.
There’s a lorikeet room, too, where you go and pay to buy food for them and then they all jump on you, fighting for the sugary syrup, then poop all over your clothing. Yes, you pay to be pooped on by birds.
When they’re tired of biting the stuff they don’t poop on, they rest.
December 22nd, 2004 at 12:50 am
Gorgeous! So nice to see those colors up here in the cold, gray north. Thanks for the lift.
December 22nd, 2004 at 1:50 am
I second that — beautiful pictures. Connecticut is, by contrast, snowy, icy, blustery, and gray.
December 22nd, 2004 at 12:58 pm
Wonderfull photos :) We use to have a nice backyard here in Frisco, but our landlord hacked it to bits. We use to have humming birds and butterflies, it was a real treasure…
December 23rd, 2004 at 12:38 am
Gorgeous. So vivid. Sorry–can’t participate in the contest. I think they’re all great.
December 24th, 2004 at 2:42 am
Oooh. That looks so lovely.