These beautiful creatures...

Yep, you guessed it right, I am talking about orchids (again). But... instead of looking at them as a whole, let's get closer and search for details. Flowers are amazing creatures, and that's why we love them... but sometimes we can just zoom in and...

 

...and we might find something different. Some details we didn't even know were there. And some flowers are so small we have to do it just to see them clearly (like these intricate yellow orchids, aren't they beautiful, by the way?).

But no matter how small the blooms are, you still can magnify them even more, and then you'll start to feel like you've been transported from reality to some kind of fairy tale...

These orchids are simply amazing...

...their parts are even crazier... and don't forget about these colorful spots ;)

Doesn't it remind you of an angry mouth, wide open and screaming something very loudly?...

Some petals decided on leaving one flower and move to another... creating some impossible combination of colors and shapes...

That day I mostly tried to get as close as possible to see and capture the smallest details... and it wasn't difficult at all with all these beauties here and there :)

After spending about an hour inside the conservatory hunting for colorful exotics, I stepped outside into the cold February morning and still could not see the world as a whole, but kept looking for the details. Pretty, but colorless, familiar, but unknown...

But when I moved closer, I discovered that some of the trees were ready for spring. With the buds about to open and sprout out fresh leaves...

But not every tree in the Botanic Garden was experiencing a spring rush... some were still living in fall or winter, with dry and brown leaves attached.

Keep your distance and don't move closer! Or... no one will protect your close from being holes by these razor sharp thorns!

I couldn't believe it was mid February! Yep, February 15 to be exact, the whole month ahead before spring would claim the right to wake up nature... unbelievable, isn't it?

But most of the surrounding area was still dull, colorless and in the past. And it didn't surprise me at all... it was expected...

So before leaving the garden I stepped in the main hall to look at something more colorful than dry and withered leaves and wilted flowers, and it wasn't hard to find something there ;)

 The pictures were taken on February 15, 2025.