New York Botanical Gardens

In an effort to get away from the unending cold in NY at this time of year, I paid a visit to my local botanical gardens.

While no match for Kew or Eden, this is a) much cheaper and b) much closer (to me anyway).

Going from the outdoors that looked like this:

to an indoor environment like this:

Is quite a shock to the system. It certainly makes stripping off the 10 winter layers you're wearing a necessity. It's a beautiful place. The buildings are pretty ugly and 80s, but the plants are great and mostly, it's really really warm.