All the pretty flowers

We spent Saturday afternoon at the Northwest Arkansas Botanical Garden, which is either in south Springdale or north Fayetteville, it’s hard to tell which. I was pretty impressed that NWA has such a flowerdy place. I was expecting a few ferns and maybe a pine tree, but the gardens are fairly extensive. It’s still early in the spring and some gardens are still under construction, so it should be better in a month or so.

Abby got a big kick out of the little ponds scattered all over the place. She spent a long time in the unfinished Japanese garden throwing decorative stones into the little pond. Each time a rock hit the water, she yelled out “blooop!” and clapped like crazy. We also saw a lizard eat a cricket. That wasn’t part of the garden show, we just got lucky. Abby really liked that because she’s really into lizards right now.

I was practicing using fill flash and I think it made the flowers pop a little too much in the above photo. I need to work on using the flash compensation button to dial it down a little, I think. The photos posted over on flickr look a little better.