Before and After at the Botanical Garden

We will be taking a short Blog Break to enjoy Christmas with Family and will return next Thursday, December 28th. 

 

 

 

 Today, on Nature Friday,we are going to give you a bit of a tease on a post coming up the first week of the New Year. 

 

 

The Botanical Gardens puts up a big display of holiday lights every year called the "River of Lights". The pawrents visited last week and saw some of the prettiest displays they have ever seen!

A few days before they visited the beautiful display, Mama visited the Gardens during the day and got some "before" pictures. It was gret tp be able to compare the "befores" with the "afters"!

Here is just one example....

 

 

 Before dark......

 

 

After dark!!!

 

 

 

Whoah....CRAZY, right?!!! 

Stay tuned for more pretty lights on the first Nature Friday of 2024!!

...and stay tuned next Friday for the final FFF of 2023, hosted by YAM Aunty! 

 

 We hope everyone gets to see some Holiday Nature this weekend!!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

 

 

 

Flowery Nature Friday and PSA

 

Happy Nature Friday!!! 

Labor Day here means the morning are a nice and cool, but the afternoons are still toasty and in the mid 90sF(Mid 30sC). This week, Mama took a morning walk at the Botanical Gardens to see what was blooming!

The Goldenrod is blooming...Mama's nose noticed that even before

she saw it BOL!

There are still so many roses blooming too!

Here is a pretty orange one

and a lovely yellow rosebud with pink edges!

 

 But wait, there are even MORE roses!

The rest of them are in my favorite color...

PINK!

Pink layers....

Pink edged...

 

Last, but not least, pink edged with a yellow middle

...and pretty water droplets!

Now for our PSA. Mama is going crazy packing everything and Daddy is making sure CeCe is in tip top shape because tomorrow, bright and early, we leave for a week long trip to the Rocky Mountains!

We are not sure if we will have internet service. If we do, we will try and send out a post card next week. With the wonderful magic of pre-posting, we will have Nature Friday set up for September 15th.

We hope you all get to get out and have fun in nature this week and we'll be back to regular posting, Tuesday September 19th.

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Summer Color from ABQ Botanic Garden

Happy Flowery Nature Friday!

Today, through the magic of the internets, while I am "On the Road Again", I get to virtually show you some of the very colorful summer flowers Mama has been seeing at the ABQ Botanical Gardens this Summer!

Mama has been getting a bit artsy with her editing lately....here is a close up of a pretty pink hibiscus

The last couple of weeks, the Tiger Lilies have been beautimous!

They still have bunches of Lotus flowers.

Mama saw a couple of cool bugs too

This grasshopper must have thought he was hiding...

BOL

This little orb spider was waiting for his breakfast

So many colors, so little time!!

Let's explore the Rosy Roses Mama saw on her last visit....

White with pink edges....

....orange and yellow

Pale yellow and pink, with bonus raindrops!

...and to finish up the week, an artsy pink bud with raindrops!

I forgot to ask though, what do you think of my colorful Elton John glasses? I sure do feel like a movie star when I wear them!

 

Thanks for joining me for a colorful Nature Friday, I hope you all get out and see some color this weekend!!

 

We will be traveling today and Monday and will catch up with everyone on Tuesday!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Ducks and Yellow Flowers

 

 Happy Nature Friday!!!

With only one more week until our next adventure, and fun pictures of US and nature together, this Friday and next Friday

 we'll be showing you pictures from Mama's summer trips to the ABQ Botanical Garden.

This week, we have a couple of ducks and some flowers to show you!

Mr. Wood Duck....

and Mrs. Wood Duck

We think maybe they got in an argument and aren't speaking to each other.

 Because you know, birds are silly!

Next week we will have a bunch of colorful flowers to show you, but let's look at a few of the pretty

yellow flowers Mama has seen....

 

 Beautiful yellow day lilies...

 

 

Some cheerful sunny Yellow Begonias! 

and some moody, more shady yellow begonia!

 

 Thanks for joining us today to look at the nature at the ABQ Botanical Gardens.

We sure hope you all get out and see some nature this weekend!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Flutterbies on Nature Friday

 Would anyone like a glass of Rose for today's fluttery Nature Friday??

Alcohol free, of course! BOL!

 Lately, Mama has been making weekly morning walking trips to the 

Botanic Garden. There are soooooo many flowers, plus it gets Mama out of the house so we can nap in peace! 

 

 Anyways, at the beginning of June, the flutterby house opened! It's not real full yet, but Mama did see some fun little flutterbies! Above are baby Monarch Butterflies. Aren't they adorable little caterpillars??

 

Here is one all grown up!! 

 

 

 Mama never gets tired of the orange, black and white wings...

 

 

 ...and no two ever look the same!

 

 

There were quite a few moths in the butterfly house this visit.

 

 Mama found this one sitting on a wilty yellow flower. It kinda looks like it has eyes on his wings, don't you think??

Here is an interesting little guy.... 

 See the little circle of fibers underneath his chin...I wonder what it does with that, collect more pollen maybe?

Mama also made a video that has some Monarch's and a few other flutterbies!

You can also watch it on our YouTube Channel HERE!

 

Here is some advice to make sure we all keep all pretty little flutterbies thriving!

Thank you for joining us for a look at some flutterbies this week, they sure are colorful, do you see them flying around in your backyard??

We hope all our friends get out to play in Nature this weekend!!

We are traveling today, but will do our best to visit everybody!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.