Amongst the most awesome things this city has to offer is the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens. The zoo host many wonderful social events along with it's regular zoological programs and one that i really love attending is a concert series called Tunes & Blooms which takes place every spring when they also present Zoo Blooms, a focus on the botanical part of their name. The zoo becomes a riot of color, mostly thanks to a large display of tulips across large parts of the grounds. Yesterday i got to shoot Tunes & Blooms once again for the local paper, but it would be foolish of me to place all my attention on the musicians and audience and not take at least a few moments to stop and photograph the flowers on such a beautiful spring evening.
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This last image isn't actually a part of Zoo Blooms. As i was about to exit the zoo i came across this stand of redbuds. I had never encountered this tree before coming to Ohio, with its brilliant purple flowers that pop with color every spring and demand your attention whenever even your peripheral vision catches sight of them. Just one more thing i will miss about this region once i have left it...
