Yesterday the kids and I met hubby at the Chicago Botanic Garden for a jazz concert. It was quite a COLD evening {more like April or May than June}, but fun nonetheless. We got to dance a bit and the kids just tore up the "dance floor" with their smooth moves. I also rediscovered my love for photographing flowers and even photographed a few other things at the Garden. Enjoy. {Jason helped me learn some new post-processing techniques}.
A close up of a purple pom pon flower. Forgive me for my ignorance as to scientific names here! Love the detail of these individual blooms, exquisite!
I thought the lines and moss on this brick were interesting.
One of the many beautiful water features at the Garden.
I just love this ivy on brick. It was like this on all four corners of this walk-through terrace structure.
More vines of a different nature on this fence. Just looks extremely interesting to me.
A close up of the vines above, love how they twist around themselves.
There were actually some peonies near these cotton candy pink ones that were more beautiful. They had a light yellow in the center but I didn't get as nice of a photo of them. Doesn't this look so shabby chic?
Not much in focus {I think the depth of field is poor and I don't know much about how to adjust that} here, but I really liked the effect of these tentacles {I studied more zoology than botany in my college career, so give me a break}. Ok, just looked it up and they are called stamen which are made up of a filament and an anther.
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The flower pics are lovely. Too bad we can't say the same thing about Chicago weather!
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