Bromeliads, mosquitoes and grasshoppers OH MY!

Visiting the Florida Botanical Gardens is like being a child with a kaleidoscope - every day is a different experience of beauty and wonder. My trip this morning was no exception. There were bromeliads in bloom the likes of which I had never seen before. The intricacy of the bloom pictured below just knocked my socks off!

Even the bugs were dazzling today. Below is a picture of a Lubber grasshopper. At first I found two of them mating, but I discovered that a swarm of mosquitoes had found me and I went bounding out of there. This grasshopper was on the window far from mosquito friendly territory.