My Niece and I had gone to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens last week on a flower reference photo mission and just to hang. We saw the sign for a butterfly exhibit, and made plans for an early Birthday present.
So Friday, we started our trip, with Mel armed in her new favorite a butterfly t-shirt. I didn’t know there was more than one entrance to the Botanical Gardens and of course I go in the one I always use. Wrong one. We parked at the restaurant and followed the signs. After over a 1/2 mile we realized the mistake – because the sign just simply had an arrow pointing up the hill. Who knew the gardens were so freakin large? lol In all my years of bringing daycare on field trips there I had never been to that side of the gardens.
We jump back in the van and drive the way over, get our tickets, and start to go in. We didn’t have to wait because alot of people hadn’t shown up and were told we could go right in. Yeah!
Upon first impression, I wasn’t impressed. But then I remembered the sign our front that said butterflies are more active on sunny days. Low and behold it’s overcast!! Luckily the clouds parted and the sun started to shine in.

The Blue Morpho Butterflies loved Mel, and it kinda freaked her out a bit. They would get in her hair and crawl on her shoulder and she would shrink up and cling to me. She loves butterflies but I think getting to see them up close and personal like that was a little on the weird side for her. Combine that with a steady flow of people, and she was behaving like a cat on a hot tin roof. She swears she had a blast though.

I of course, was in hog heaven but dealing with a huge case of camera envy. Some of the cameras I saw had to be worth more than I make in a year. I used my Nikon Coolpix point and shoot like i had good sense, and still came away with some great shots. Sadly though, I came away with 25 good shots out of 80+. But non the less – they inspire me, even the not so great ones. The little buggers don’t stay still mind you.

They handed out little booklets with some pictures and names, but I didn’t see half of those in the exhibit. It was towards the end anyway it closes on the 4th, and they only live as butterflies for 2-3 days. Alot of the butterflies we did see we not in the booklets so go figure. Overall it was a wonderfully awesome time, I wish I could have stayed longer. Next time I will take the whole day off instead of a couple hours, and bring an extra memory card for the camera.
Now why all the interest in butterflies all of a sudden? Team EBSQ-Etsy theme this month is butterflies, so I wanted to really get inspired. Butterflies are so beautiful they deserve to be done right. It was definitely worth the $16 bux.














