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If you're in the Tucson area, the Tucson Botanical Gardens is having their first big butterfly event tomorrow. Tickets are on sale. We've watched these little guys grow and they are quite the sight right now flying around. Here is the information....
http://www.tucsonbotanical.org/2010/10/butterfly-affaire-2010-a-wicked-evening/
Tickets for this event are a bit pricey....especially if you are on a teacher's salary:) This is essentially the kick off to the butterfly event. The cost is much cheaper after Sunday. They have a dinner and some fun planned and hence, I believe, the 150 dollar ticket price. You may also find another beautiful butterfly garden at the Desert Museum while there is also an informal butterfly garden at the Tohono Chul Park. Either way, it's butterfly season here in Tucson!!:) The difference at the Botanical Gardens is that they will have several varieties from South and Central America....like the morphos butterfly:)
I can't stop taking pictures of these guys:)
Beautiful shots. I wish i could participate !!!!
ReplyDeleteLovely photos - with your new camera? Sadly, I will not be in Tucson. I hope you'll have some updates and photos for us.
ReplyDeleteYou are fortunate, douwn here there is NO Botanical Gardens just plants at ramdom without any sense of aesthetics.
ReplyDeleteEven worse, the shit we have here calling themselves botanical, have no pages in the web to investigate or research as they do in real botanicals in ohter countries...
Lucky you...
Hello....definitely snapping pics with the new camera...it's so much fun...and right now we have butterflies all over our property!!! I snapped some more...this time a swallowtail landed on some bamboo and posed for me....it's so much fun. I love this camera.
ReplyDeleteAntigonum cajan....I feel your pain....I know. I was stuck on a martian sahara island off of West Africa for a year!!! No plants...just desert. And the "botanical garden" place they had was no garden but a small green house....it's challenging. Sometimes I felt alone, but I found a way to create a garden community from some creative energy. I've been watching the butterfly leaders and have been planting certain plants around the property....and what an impact it has had! We're very lucky to have this blogging program to share with each other.
I would love to go but am not in the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteHope you will share some more of your butterfly pictures with us! What camera are you using? I'm in the market to graduate from a point-and-shoot!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the invite... I'm just a hop, skip and a jump away! (JK)
ReplyDeleteMy camera is the Canon IS20...from 330 to 400 dollars...but I see it as a good investment:) I've graduated from amateur to somewhere in between and I needed to get a better camera for the shots I'm taking now:)I was angry because when I went to Peru, there was a jaguar lying on the beach and I had a substandard camera....you can see them on my Peru-Amazon. They didn't turn out so great:) So I don't want to be in that situation again on my trips.
ReplyDeleteReally nice Butterfly photos. It looks like a lovely place to visit, but a really long drive.
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