It's been a monster of a week, and I haven't had any time to finish the various daily posts I've begun, one of which was simply photos, with minimal commentary, of
Carnival/Carnaval and
Mardi Gras celebrations around the country and globe, so instead, here are some shots I took--meaning they're very easy to link to--from a recent trip to the
Lincoln Park Conservatory, one of the
Windy City's real treasures. While I can't be in
Brazil, or
Trinidad, or
Dominican Republic, or even
New Orleans, I was able to spend a little time amid the flora from those places and other parts of the world, which really did lift my spirits after the last few weeks on end of gray coldness, broken by...snow! It's not the same as costumes and steel drums, or the sun really annealing you in all that joy and fun, but the color and warmth at least will suffice, especially since it's snowing (again) here, but really sticking this time. (The cars in the alleyway just a marble's toss from where I'm sitting as I type htis are already completed entombed in white.)
But, back to those plants and flowers:
The entryway pond
A sausage tree pod
A camellia
Orchids, in the orchid room
Newlyweds being photographed in the fern room
Pitcher plants, in the orchid room
A cattleyea orchid, one of the most popular variations
Vanilla plant
I want to say these were daffodils, but I may be wrong
Closer
Japanese camellia
One of the ponds
Red wing azaleas
Flamingo flower
Outside, (another photographer facing) towards downtown Chicago
A few weeks back: the beach and Lake Michigan (under a tarpaulin of snow)
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