Today we spent most of our day at the Key Royal Botannical Gardens. What a wonderful way to experience the green side of this great country! It was so nice to meander along the pathways under blue skies, between aged cedars and strong oaks, then pop into the glass houses for different climate types and some beautiful examples of my favorite plants.
Hooray for Orchids!!!!!!!
When I finally found the orchid rooms in the Princess of Wales Conservatory, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Here are some of the best. Oh, and my camera died at the beginning of the orchid rooms! I could have screamed. But I had my iPhone with me to pick up wi-fi signals if needed, so I took pictures with that.
ORCHIDS!!!
Lovely arbors in the gardens.
With roses at the end. Thought you'd like these, Mom. Happy Mother's Day.
Me at the station before the day started. Emalie and April Jane in the background.
Vital news!Even More Vital
Actually an intriguing story about how relativity and the nature of gravity was proved recently by spinning tops in space.
Actually an intriguing story about how relativity and the nature of gravity was proved recently by spinning tops in space.
Bookshops! :)
A delicious scone with butter and raisins that does not look quite as appetizing here.
Very odd
The top of a spiral staircase in an arboretum.
Water Lilies - The Amazon water lily is the largest in the world, and can allegedly hold an entire baby floating on its leaf. Tucker?????
Andy and I on the branch of a special oak that doesn't lose its leaves in the winter due to inbreeding. Haha, actually cross-breeding.
This looks dark and menacing.
This was the only orchid I found outside of the Princess of Wales conservatory, but it was well worth the finding, and somewhat more special.
This flower smelled like wonderful perfume.
I later coaxed this peacock out from under a tree and Andy chased it while hurling crumbs from a sandwich.
Japanese Gate
Near the Japanese gate, a rock garden.
Goslings were so cute and fluffy.
Ok, this was a treetop walk, where you could see what it's like in the treetops, and I was getting flashes of vertigo the entire time. The walkway is grating, see-through, and it seems like you're walking on nothing. AAAAAhhhhhhHHHHHH!!!!!
Orchids I caught with my camera before it died.
Beautiful rose for Mom.
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