February 7th my sister Lynda came and stayed with us for over a month. Our first garden to tour was the Polasek museum and garden in Winter Park. His birthday is Feb. 14 so it was free to get in.
This was his home and studio when he retired from teaching in Chicago.
A sign to Philadelphia for Lynda. He went to art school there.
A self sculpture of himself.
There were sculptures throughout the garden. The cold weather in January had hit a lot of the plants.
We had a good guided tour of his house and studio.
Our next garden to visit was the Leu Garden in Orlando.
It had a special exhibit call Nature Connects Art with LEGO bricks.
All the red dots are where LEGO art could be seen in the gardens. All of the following pictures have creatures made of LEGO. Each had a sign next to it telling about the creature in nature and then it told how many LEGO it took to make it and how many hours.
The garden was real and the food harvested.
We had to hunt for this one.
That is ant Dot.
Besides amazing art work the grounds were very pretty.
And the plants were labeled.
Lynda's one day at Disney was to Epcot, of course for the Flower and Garden festival.
Lynden, Larry's brother and his wife Sabra met us there.
The orchids by Mexico were beautiful.
Lots of topiaries.
The weather was perfect and there was a full moon in the evening.
We made it a full day ending with the IllumiNation.
One Saturday we adventured over to St. Petersburg to the Sunken Gardens.
Terri was head of the middle school at Friend Select when Lynda was there. Terri moved to St. Petersburg last year and working at a school there. It was nice they were able to get together.
It is a very pretty, restful garden.
Even has a flock of flamingos.
Getting ready for a wedding, a very popular place for them.
All these gardens made me want to plant some flowers. Here is the freshly planted Mathias garden.
A few weeks later they are still alive and doing well. I may even get some tomatoes to go with the basil.
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