In September of last year I visited the Chicago Botanical Gardens with a bunch of friends, not for the first time. This time I managed to take a few pictures. I don’t know why they’re called the Chicago Botanical Gardens. The only relationship they seem to have with Chicago is that they’re both in the same state: Illinois. Otherwise, the gardens themselves are located a fair distance towards the North from downtown Chicago, right between Lake and Cook counties.

I like these gardens because I love nature and by definition, there’s a lot of nature inside. They have a large lake, paths and alleys, hills and valleys, and myriad types of vegetation: trees, bushes, flowers, vegetables, grasses and whatnot. There are even swans and ducks on the lake, as well as big catfish swimming just a few inches from the surface. I was pretty amused to watch people feed the ducks, swans and fish with pieces of bread and other tasty bits.

As to my own “catch”, it wasn’t too rich this time because even though the weather started sunny, we were drenched by a sudden outpour, literally from out of the blue. I barely had time to stick my camera and lenses inside the bag before I was soaked to the skin. Of course, the rain stopped just as suddenly and the sun came out again from behind the clouds. In all, a nice day.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 at 2:02 pm and is filed under Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel, Macro, Nature. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.