Beautiful Flowers of the Garden Isle

Kauai, “The Garden Isle”, certainly lived up to its name, with lush tropical plants and flowers spilling over every surface – I felt as if I had entered another world!

The condo we stayed at in Kauai had a lovely gardens all around, and a wonderful orchid garden in front.

I enjoyed seeing so many gorgeous plants and flowers – what an amazing place! Please take a minute to look at my slide show of flower photos from Hawaii and let me know what you think :)!

*Click Here to see a Slide Show of 30 Flower Images from Kauai*

*Click Here to See More of Our Hawaii Photos*

A Lovely Visit to the Botanical Garden

I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;
I will tell of all your wonders.
I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Psalm 9:1&2

On Thursday we met Chris at the Botanical Garden for lunch. It was a GORGEOUS day! We also saw our friends Laurie and Brett there too, which was a nice surprise :). After Chris left to go back to work, we explored the Children’s Garden and Butterfly House a bit before heading home.

Julia sticks her tongue out for almost every photo these days! Of course Gabe has to imitate her for laughs!

The Circle of Life for a Monarch Butterfly!

Check out the photo below, do you see the “before and after” of the monarch butterfly? I thought it was so neat to see both forms sharing the same leaf!!

We truly experienced how amazing God’s creation is!

The fall foliage behind this fountain looked so beautiful! I hope we can fit in lots of visits to the Botanical Gardens this autumn :).

Added More to Flickr

Hi all! Not much to say tonight – I’m tired and I’m going downstairs to watch a movie with Chris in a second :). If you’re bored you can check out the new nature photos I added to Flickr, just click here.

Flickr Update

Sorry, just a quick update tonight (I’m working at VBS this week so I haven’t had a lot of free time)! I have started adding the flower photos from our recent trip to my Flickr account. I still have a lot to go through, but if you want to see the ones I’ve uploaded so far (including pictures of some rare Ladies Slippers) you can click on my Flickr sidebar link or click here. Enjoy :)!

Wolf Den State Park

While in Pomfret, CT, we visited Wolf Den State Park with Gilly (Chris’ Mom), Rusty (Gilly’s dog) and Ashley (Madison’s dog).

The park is named after the former home of the last wolf in CT, which was killed by Israel Putnam  in 1742. You can hike to the old den and even crawl inside there like I did a bunch of times as a kid. But on this day we just took a short hike through the woods.

Gabe played with the dogs and Julia showed them how she sticks out her tongue ;). After the hike Gabe got to ride his bike at the campground.

Gilly blew kisses at Julia – I love this sweet photo of them!

She also taught Gabe the buttercup test, so he checked all of us with buttercups to see if we had the telltale yellow glow under our chins! It was a truly lovely day. My favorite part was right before we went home when Gilly brought me down another trail so I could photograph some rare Lady Slippers – I’ll share those pics later :)!