Did another tour of the Royal Botanical Gardens, this time during tulip season. The tulips were at the RGB's Rock Garden, and there were also forsythia, azalea, even some left over daffodils, and blossoming cherry trees outside the Rock Garden itself.

Not sure what kind of tree this is.

These tulips look somewhat like lotuses.

Looks like a beetle here, but it's more fly-like. Actually, i thought it might be a solitary bee.

No idea what this is.

Carnivorous tulip?

Weird looking tree.

Hyacinth, i think. The bluish grape hyacinth pic didn't turn out.

Magnolia.

From the Rock Garden's teahouse. Food was meh.

Fancy daffodils.

I think all the flowering trees were cherry. These were actually on the other side of the parking lot.

An oriole! I haven't seen an oriole in forever, since i was little. He was feeding on the flowers' nectar.

I liked the deep blue sky contrasting with the pale pink shades of the flowers.

I left the Rock Garden to go to their Arboretum (the RGB is on several sites). This area is the oppposite of the compact, almost cozy Rock Garden, devoted mainly to trees and lilacs.

Lilac season is a couple of weeks away, but they had some beginning to blossom.

This guy had a very expensive looking camera, and he was trying to get a good shot of an oriole - another one, unless the first one followed me on the 2 km drive. The majority of people in this place (like the group in the background) were Asian, doing the 'cherry blossom viewing' thing.

Lots of petals on the ground - not so easy to get them as they fall.

CAUGHT ONE!