Our second day in Chicago found us with some drizzle and cloudy skies. We chose to spend the day at the Chicago Botanical Garden. It was a place I visited shortly before moving to South Africa and as it turned out a great place to spend the day.
For me the best thing were the water features where about 20 or 30 different waterlilies were in bloom. I could have probably spent all day trying for the best shot.... of every different one of them. I would have loved to see a warm sunny day that would have encouraged a few bugs to visit them too.
I will post a few of my favorites here.... and the rest over the next couple of days.
and a lily pad... doesn't the texture and spikes on the rolled side look cool?
Do you have a favorite lily.... here?
More Later-Beth
Good to see your posts! We visited our Botanical Gardens here in Huntsville last week when my brother and sister-in-law visited. I wish I magically had your photography skill, but it was still fun catching butterflies in action.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know there were lots of different water lily blooms. I guess I thought they all looked like the last photos. I was up at the Botanical gardens once back in the 1990s with my new 35mm camera and got some great shots of exotic blooms.
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