Monday, January 25, 2010

UNITED STATES BOTANIC CONSERVATORY: ORCHIDS AND LILYS AND CACTI....OH MY!

I had the pleasure to spend the day with Miri (from Behnkes, not..... & Zack Make a Porno!), and her father, on a photo-safari of the United States Botanic Conservatory as well as the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden and The Smithsonian Castles on the DC Mall. The day was cold, but sunny and pleasant, I was wearing shorts but I had a feeling I would be ok since we would be in and out of buildings. It was a long day, we metro-ed into the city and started at the conservatory, we all were taking pictures, so we ended up going our own ways somewhat and then re-grouped.

You could hit the Capitol Building with a rock, probably not the BEST idea though!!

I want this fountain in my backyard dammit!





Bird of Paradise







A Banana Tree bearing fruit



A very cool air-plant, no roots



It hurts just to look at it!



There were a lot of pictures from this outing, almost 450 so I will break it up into a few threads, to be continued!!