Last Sunday me and my mum decided to visit the botanic gardens in our town. I haven't been there in so long but it's always really nice and I was craving some warmer temperatures after coming back home from the sunny Thailand.
And also do they currently have an exhibition for (alive) tropical butterflies going on.
Butterflies are such fragile creatures. It's so interesting watching them fly from flower to flower. In summer we have two huge lilac trees in our garden which always attract tons of butterflies. Really missing this right now so the exhibition was just about the perfect thing for a cold, drizzly Sunday morning.
All the butterflies were extremely colourful and some of them pretty gigantic. They came from all over the world and usually live up to one or two weeks. The number of butterflies inside the greenhouse was very impressive. It's definitely a nice environment. Lots of plants, flowers, a little bit of water and even fruit stations where the butterflies can stuff themselves. Yumm!
One butterfly even landed on my shoulder and while my mum was taking a picture two more found it pretty comfortable on her!
But see the beauties yourself:
