A day at the Phipps

[cornerofmadness]

Mom, brother, SiL and I went to the Phipps Conservatory. to see the holiday display. I have to say a) raising your price on the weekend isn't cool b) 20$ is a bit pricey to see some flowers. That said it IS an expensive operation. It's now doing a lot of children outreach which I love. It's a very nice place and the holiday displace is top notch.

I'm still laughing at my brother who went to Pitt and didn't know this was here. You can SEE it on the top of the hill from the college library. Geez dude.

We picked a beautiful day to go as you can see



I'm also laughing that my brother and his wife were COLD in a freaking greenhouse (except in the tropical Cuba display and in the desert room.)

Have more photos






I LOVE the blue trees


I love the poinsettas especially the yellow which are new to me, Golden Glo


They have weddings here. Probably not at Christmas

love the star

golden barrels and century plant


purty


reindeer made of reindeer moss

Orchid


We went to a gastropub, the Yard for lunch. I liked it. I ordered a Southern Tier crème brulee stout that was AMAZING too bad it was out and all I got was a sample. I ended up with New Holland's gose made of sour concord grapes


And for the Prodigal Son fans on my list here's 13 sneak peek pictures right here

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I have a suspicion that if weekend prices were reduced to match weekday prices, weekend crowds would be too large for the facility to handle, and if weekday prices were increased to match weekend prices, people who can justify the lower price and not the higher one would be shut out altogether instead of just on weekends.

this does not make it cool, mind.

[cornerofmadness]

It's actually only two dollars so it's not that big of a deal so it really has no impact on the crowds. It's just taking advantage of people who can only go on weekends and that's what irritates me.

[alexseanchai]

okay yeah that's just them being a pain in the neck 'cause they can

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah. THough they DO have to limit the people. The place is from 1892 with not as much space as you'd want and like jack shit for parking.

It's beautiful though

[spindle_ella]

So pretty! And the blue trees are cool - I wondered why you'd photoshopped them until I read the caption.

[cornerofmadness]

They were lovely. And definitely not photoshopped, just beautiful blue LED lights