the fern room...

Last week we took a trip to the beautiful flower show at the Lincoln Park Conservatory.  There was another display in the show, not showy and colorful like the flowers, but captivating all the same.  Just a few shots but I thought you might enjoy them. 

I already knew this information because I have a daughter who got her undergraduate degree in Biology.  This daughter also loves to share new found knowledge and believe it or not - once in a blue moon, I remember some of it.

The standard Fern...

and the not so standard...

and the one I found the most unusual, the Staghorn Fern...

 How cool is that?  I've never had much luck with Ferns but I think I might give it another go.

Do you have a green thumb?

the windy city...

Did you guess where I was last week?  I went to Chicago and Wisconsin.  Andrew Henry grew up in a suburb of Chicago and my Dad grew up in Wisconsin.  We did a little tourist/family visit combo trip.  I'll pepper you with the highlights over the next few weeks. 

We're going to visit the Lincoln Park Conservatory in downtown Chicago.  We stopped by to see the flower show and it was inspiringly beautiful.  There were some familiar favorites, some exotic beauties and some strange other worldly type plants as well. 

Today, we'll just take a look at a few of the flowers.  Seriously, these are just a few of them.  It was like walking into a painting.  The colors were so pure and perfect it was impossible to take it all in or capture with the camera.  I hope this will give you an idea.

Here's a little trivia for you - there are 30,000 varieties of orchids, that is more than any other flower in the world.  Who knew?

Which image was your favorite today?

Tomorrow we'll see the ferns and the oddities.