Springfield Botanical Garden – February 2025
/It was not a great day to go to the Springfield Botanical Gardens – cloudy and chilly….but I wanted to try out my new Nikon Coolpix P950 camera. My husband did the driving to the garden and he brought along his camera too even though he didn’t use it.
It was not a day for landscapes but there was enough light to get some zoomed pictures of winter plants – dried flowers from last summers’ hydrangeas, some evergreens with enough color variation and texture to be interesting, berries that the birds are reluctant to eat, and dried grasses.
I saw one witch hazel and it was booming. This is its normal time to bloom so not exactly a sign of coming spring.
There were some bulbs peeping from the mulch….which seems more aligned with the notion that spring is coming.
There were some succulents and prickly pear cactus that seemed in better shape than I expected after the very low temperatures a few weeks ago.
It was a good first field trip with the camera…a learning experience without much pain. I somehow managed to not charge the battery completely so it was depleted very quickly…and I initially couldn’t see through the viewfinder with my glasses on….but my husband helped fix that problem with a slight adjustment on a knob that had no equivalent in my previous camera.
I am ready to try some bird photography later this week!
