Austin Botanical Center - 2011-05

[guppiecat]

On my trip to Austin (where I got the Armadillo board game, which sadly isn't online, but the shop is here), I went to the Austin Botanical Center. This place has the interesting claim to fame of having a large Japanese garden in Texas. I wouldn't have thought it would work, but it does.

The entire set is here. (Set has bugs, but not scary* ones.) (Set also has extreme close ups of genitals**.)

* Well, scary to me, anyway

** Well, plant genitals

Here is my favorite:




First, a series of three shots to illustrate how things look different depending on the scale of your view. I rarely get a sequence that works this well, and had I been thinking of it, I could add additional shots to each end of the scale.







Next, more bees! Texas bees, for some reason, are a lot easier to photograph than Iowa or Minnesota bees.










Not sure what sort of wasp this is. They don't have these where I live.


This is what happens when you put too much salt in the water softener.


Texas loves me.



Dirty.


Also dirty.


Not sure if these colours look right to non colour-blind people. It looks neat to me, though.


"Why sure I’ll introduce you to the boys. They give ‘em funny names though, St. Lou."


When you're lost and all alone there ain't no word for lonely.


Turtles are not easily amused. They know that life is nothing but a shell game.