A Trip to the Botannical Gardens

I finally made a trip to the Zilker Botanical Gardens here in Austin - a beautiful walk which I'm SO glad I went early in the morning! It got hot fast. I'm curious to know what it looks like in the fall; the wintery look is beautiful as well. :) I'm not sure what several of these flowers are, so if anyone knows, pipe up! :)

These flowers are at the entrance to the Green Garden - I loved the color. Not sure what they are though.

This was the prehistoric garden - I didn't get to see any dinosaur tracks, but the plants looked nice. They are apparently ones that were around at the time of the dinos! Cool, huh?

These are around the Rose garden.

I just LOVE yellow roses!


Nice calming waterfall.
I love the yellow flowers - I have no idea what they are, but I see them quite often. Anybody know?

Into the forest primeval. . . . .wonder if this is the wrong turn where I got momentarily lost? It's along the butterfly trail - with plants that attract butterflies.

Photo Challenge: Nature

One of the message boards I frequent has a fun 'Shutterbug Challenge" every Wednesday - someone picks a topic and people post pics relating to that subject. Some are easy to do, some are. . . .a challenge. I'm going to try and include my pics in my blog every week from now on - so we shall see my progress! This week's challenge just happens to be nature.

This first pic I took years ago, but it's one of my favorites - in the Davis Mountains of Texas. It's a prominant part of the horizon when we're in our cabin.
A rose by any other name. . . . . . .