Nature Connects: a LEGO display not sponsored by LEGO

Soooo... for my birthday... Jeff took me to the Leu Gardens in Orlando to see the Nature Connects: Art with LEGO Bricks display. We had been to the gardens a few years prior but after finding out they were having a LEGO event... He knew I wanted to go check it out.. So fresh off the plane from my own birthday gift to myself, a whirlwind trek across Southeast Asia.. We headed off to the gardens! (listed on the National Register of Historic Places!)

The 'event' features 16 sculptures in 13 displays all made out of LEGO's, some 450,000 bricks... placed all around the 50 acre garden. Even with the provided map showing the general area the models were placed.. some of them were harder to find than others...

So yeah, Nature Connects: Art with LEGO Bricks!
(woo)

Gardening Grandfather with Granddaughter
46,940 bricks

Peacock
68,827 bricks

Ant Mosaic
12,990 bricks

 Galapagos Tortoise and Darwin Finch
23,317 bricks
(by far the hardest model to find... we even found other people who were lost looking for this one!)

Birdbath
14,802 bricks
(I love the little LEGO squirrel!)

Giant Pansy
29,314 bricks

Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly
 7,788 bricks

Wheelbarrow
29,900 bricks

     Hummingbird and Trumpet Flower
61,107 bricks

Giant Corn Spider
16,492 bricks

Monarch Butterfly on Milkweed
39,708 bricks

Buck, Doe and Fawn
84,442 bricks
(aww)
((also, I guess I missed getting the Buck in this shot... so lets make that 15 sculptures in 13 display, oops))

And last, my favorite....
The LEGO Bonsai Tree! Built with 9,143 bricks...
(And I would totally buy this as a kit!)

Yup