festival of flowers.

every year, mobile has their annual festival of flowers. organizations and businesses from the area come together and display arrangements, sculptures, and demonstrations all about flowers and plants. my grandmother has been participating for as long as i can remember.. and probably before that! i went with her this year to help set up her arrangement and couldn't resist taking photos of some of the amazing creations.

[disclaimer: these photos were taken with my iphone. don't judge.]

one of the organizations made sculptures based on popular children's books. this is the alice in wonderland display.

i was so amazed by these beautiful dresses made completely from flowers and leaves. i would so wear that wedding dress. and the pink one reminds me of something straight out of a disney movie. [you knew i couldn't go a whole blog post without mentioning disney.]

bundle of joy.

disney's animal kingdom has a new family member! meet the newest baby gorilla.. a girl, still yet to be named. i could probably stare at this gorgeous photo forever. seriously.

it honestly amazes me how much animals really are like humans. they think, they reason, they love. read the entire article here.

mickey is everywhere.

as you will come to find out (if you're not already aware), i love anything to do with disney. disney world, disneyland, disney movies, the mouse himself.. so i literally freaked out a little when i saw this in my morning fruit juice smoothie.

yep, that's right. a perfect little mickey head. top that, people.