Hershey Gardens Part II

Linking up with Skywatch Friday  and Good Fences  and NF Winged


 I have some more photos to share from my Hershey Gardens visit.. While at Hershey I was lucky to include some sky and fence shots for Skywatch Friday and Tex's Good Fence memes..Some other shots were of the moon from my yard and of course I had to throw in a yardbird.   

The day before I took a shot of the almost full moon and the almost Supermoon..

Before leaving for Hershey Gardens, I had to check out my yard birds. It seems I have become overrun with these House Sparrows.. This one is sitting on the pokeberry bush..

Another prettie from the Hershey Butterfly House.. A Queen butterfly..

The entrance to the children's garden and walkway to the butterfly house..this shot include a clear sky and some pretty fences too.

For Tex's Good Fence meme... here is a fence with some pretty roses was all around the pond. 

Above is a scene from the gardens showing the pretty blue sky with some puffy white clouds. It was perfect weather for walking around the gardens, not too hot and no humidity. I love these lovely plants.. Elephant Ears.

For the NF Winged part of my post. I am sharing another one of my favorite butterflies..It is called the Zebra Longwing..

Another shot of the Zebra Longwing...It is beautiful!

This colorful moon was also taken the morning before the actual supermoon..I like the color of this setting moon..The moon shots were all taken hand held using my Canon SX40HS, no special lenses were necessary.


I hope you enjoyed my post and photos
To see more pretty skies from around the world please visit  Skywatch Friday
and check more fence shots at Tex's Good Fences
and for anything that has wings check out NF Winged

Thanks to Tex @ The Run*A*Round Ranch for hosting Good Fences and to Sylvia, Yogi  and Sandy for hosting Skywatch Friday also thanks to Monica of NF Winged!   I wish everyone a safe and happy long weekend.

Hershey Gardens

  I am linking up with Mary's last  Mosaic Monday and Our World Tuesday 


I am happy to welcome Judith of Lavender Cottage as the new host of Mosaic Monday.. Thanks to Judith, Mosaic Monday lives on.. it has been one of my favorite memes. Special thanks to Mary of Little Red House for being such a great host of Mosaic Monday for these past years..

For my post I am sharing some of my photos from my visit to Hershey Gardens, in Hershey, Pa...the sweetest place on earth..Anyone living on the east coast has heard of the famous Chocolate Hershey bars..and the yummy Hershey kisses..

In the larger photo above you can see the rides at the Hershey Amusement park, we could hear the screams coming from the people on the rides..

I was able to zoom in for a closer look at the double roller coasters that are in the amusement park.

I had to check out the birds at Hershey Gardens too, where there are flowers I can usually find birds.. I did see a few Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. A few Gray Catbirds, Mourning Doves, a Downy Woodpecker and a lot of House Sparrows..

"The world is a rose, smell it and pass it to your friends."

The Butterfly house was my favorite part of our visit to Hershey Gardens..Some of the butterflies we saw were the: Giant Swallowtail, Black Swallowtail, Tiger Swallowtail, Zebra Swallowtail, Eastern Comma, Mexican Bluewing, Monarch, Fritillary, Pipevine Swallowtail, Queen, White Peacock, Question mark, Viceroy, Zebra Longwing,

 A lot of the butterflies are seen locally like this Common Buckeye. But some were new to me or seen during my travels..

This butterfly was one of my favorites..I believe this butterfly is called the Julia.



I hope you enjoyed my walk around Hershey Gardens.. As always I thank you for stopping by and for the nice comments.

I hope you can join in on our at  Mosaic Monday and   Our World Tuesday

 Thanks to Judith our new host of Mosaic Monday and to the hosting group of Our World Tuesday: Arija, Gattina, Lady Fi, Sylvia, Sandy and Jennifer.  I wish everyone a happy week ahead!