Celebrating Autumn

The trees are amazing this time of year in Central PA so we thought we would make good use of our membership to Hershey Gardens and enjoy the autmn splendor.

Giant Chinese Silver Grass above,

a magnificent Japanese Maple below.

Beauty berry with stink bug:)

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot

Roses and Butterflies

Spent a little time at Hershey Gardens today. The newly renovated butterfly house opened last week and I was anxious to see it. Zoe and I had a magical time. And let me tell you, outside there are more roses than you can shake a stick at (7,500)! Milton Hershey's wife must have loved her roses. I am glad we got a membership as it gets us into Winterthur as well - $75 well spent!

This rose looks fake or else like it should be on a birthday cake!

"The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity."

-George Carlin

Feeding time!

Pink roses on a trellis.

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." Alphonse Karr

I wanted to take this owl statue home with me!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!