Frosty. Rainy. Cold morning. Until I got to the butterfly exhibit and then it was....hot, humid, and steamy. I don't know what both extremes will do to a body, but I'll find out tonight. Hopefully I won't get sick. On this gray and cloudy day, a moment of sunshine and color presented itself in the gardens! Today I went to volunteer at the gardens in the butterfly exhibit and it was a wonderful contrast to what was really going on outside. I love convservatories and greenhouses because you can grow things inside that you normally wouldn't be able to plant outside....for example, you'll see tillandsias(or air plants) all around the tropical garden. Here are pics and a vid from today's outings.
The Morphos Butterfly(wings closed)
Morphos with wings open.
The exhibit will be open until April 30th, 2011.
The Glass Wing Butterfly
Birdwing Butterfly
The video contains several shots from the exhibit before visitors arrived plus you'll get to see how they move about the greenhouse.
The Atlas Moth
Tomorrow I'll show what we did to prepare for the super freeze that is happening tonight and throughout the weekend.
Remember the early posting of the "bird droppings" and how I said I didn't have a pic to show them as the butterfly yet? Well today during my daily journal of the garden, one of them came to visit me at the window where I daydream. They are all grown up now and flying around the garden today. It landed on the bamboo and I think waited for me to get my camera and snap off a couple shots. I think it stopped by to "thank me" for not squashing it when I found it on my citrus plant. What a wonderful gift!:)
The Glass Wing Butterfly
Birdwing Butterfly
The Atlas Moth
Labels:
atlas moth,
birdwing butterfly,
butterflies,
butterfly,
Butterfly Magic,
mariposa,
morpho,
the glasswing butterfly,
Tucson Botanical Gardens
