Sunken Gardens in St Petersburg FL is a popular tourist attraction and is a nice place for a walk. There’s always something in bloom here, and it’s nice and relaxing.

Some photos. (Most of these were not identified, and I am plant-illiterate and don’t know what they are. So if anyone can ID any of them, that’d be great.)

The rest I do not know:

The bees photobombed me a few times:

The grandmother of the alleged gunman in the mass shooting at Florida State University is speaking out about her grandson and his parents, calling them "rotten bastard people." In an interview with , 79-year-old Susan Eriksen, the biological maternal grandmother of Phoenix Ikner, said that the 20-year-old's father and stepmother had negatively influenced him before the shooting. "They taught him how to hunt, they're bigoted people, they hated a lot of people," Susan told the outlet on Friday, April 18. Phoenix, who reportedly held white supremacist political views , was...

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