More From My Florida Journal on a Wintery Day

 Hi everyone. Happy Saturday to you.

We are in the middle of a BIG snowstorm this morning as this post goes live.  My shovel has been getting a daily work out this past week. So have I-smile.  The snow from these late storms luckily don’t last long, but finally, after a fairly mild winter and already having mud season, we have a lot of snow on the ground.  If it was January it might be exciting, but by March, I think most everyone is tired of snow. At least that's what it seems like everyone is talking about.

I'm  disappointed it’s storming today though because I really wanted to do something fun. It's my birthday, and how often does it fall on a Saturday when the hubby is home?  I will have to celebrate on another day, so maybe if I look at it that way, this snow is a good thing because I can have more than 1 day for my birthday. Hee-hee.

I will definitely eat some cake that I made yesterday though. 😀

I'm going to share some warm and cheery pages from my Florida journal today. I've shown you some of my  photos from the Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg over the last few weeks, and I'll finish those up  after my journal pages.

I did a lot of brochure chopping to make these pages. They're pretty simple, but the point of my travel  journal is to have a collection of memory pages, not necessarily finished individual art pages. I look at the whole journal as 1 piece of art, unlike my art journals where each page is an individual piece. 

The shiny sticker on the next page did not photograph very well.

And if you want to read about the Sunken Gardens, one of Florida's old time tourist attractions, you can do so on the next page.

I'm linking these to Valerie's Anything Goes challenge at Art Journal Journey.

And here's the rest of my  Sunken Garden photos.

One thing I thought was interesting is that this attraction (owned by the city of St. Petersburg) takes in many abandoned  tropical birds and cares for them. They have a whole section of the garden that is closed to the public where these birds are kept. And they also have this flock of flamingos. I'm not sure this  gives these flamingos their best life as they are pinioned and can't fly, but I  don't know how to tell  if these birds are happy in their pool area or whether they'd like to be flying free.

I enjoyed watching them however. 

Here's a few final shots from the gardens that includes some cool textures that you'll see if you look at plants closely.

And like this brook, I've been babbling enough for one post. Have a great weekend.