A Spring Visit to Tower Hill Botanic Garden

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!  As I walked at Tower Hill, the soundtrack to that Christmas carol played in my mind.   There was beauty on all sides:  flowers in the gardens, butterflies, birds in the trees, thousands of daffodils in bloom in the daffodil field, and bright, beautiful tulips.  If you can visit Tower Hill Botanic Garden soon, go!  It's the most wonderful time of the year!

 Bluets

Gray Catbird

Eastern Pine Elfin

Thunberg Spirea

 Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher

Spring Azure

 Northern Cardinal and Chipping Sparrow

serenading the people enjoying the daffodil field

Mourning Cloak

Magnolia cv. Elizabeth

Mr. and Mrs. Eastern Bluebird

 Eastern Pine Elfin

 Cherry

 Baltimore Oriole

 Eastern Pine Elfin

Pink Trumpet Daffodil

 Mrs. Baltimore Oriole

 Mourning Cloak

 Baltimore Oriole

 Mourning Cloak

Saucer Magnolia

Swainson's Thrush

 Garter Snake

I spent about 10 minutes with this snake, which for some reason did not slither off to safety.  I tried to photograph its red tongue, but I kept missing it.  A couple even stopped and tried to help me but I just couldn't make it happen!  I could have with my other camera, but I just haven't mastered the settings on this one yet.  Excuses, excuses!

Cherry

 Kwanzan Cherry

Cherry Plum

Oriental Spruce

Forget-me-not