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Tuesday

Disney Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop ~ April

Welcome and thanks for stopping by The Disney Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop here at Focused on the Magic.com where each week we gather with our Disney Blogger friends to link up and share our #DisneySide Wordless Wednesday vacation picture posts. I hope you'll join us by linking up your pictures and hopping to see all the great vacation photos the blogs have posted.
The theme this week is:Your April Calendar Shot.

Happy April! To celebrate the 2014 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival which happens to be going on right now at Epcot and the beautiful month of April, I'm sharing one of my all time favorite photos and one I just entered into a contest.

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There's even a Hidden mickey in the clouds making it even more magical for me. Can you see it or is it just my imagination? It's a side shot of Steamboat Willie.
I try to take the same picture every year by standing in the same spot and waiting for the monorail to come around. People walk by and some people have asked me what I'm doing.
I guess they've never seen a Disney photography nerd in action.(▰˘◡˘▰)

Do you have a favorite photo spot?

Time to link up your Wordless Wednesday...

Disney Wordless Wednesday: The Letter "U"

Welcome and thanks for stopping by The Disney Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop here at Focused on the Magic.com. Each week we gather with our Disney Blogging friends to link up and share our #DisneySide Wordless Wednesday vacation picture posts. I hope you'll join us by linking up your pictures and blog hopping. You'll see a lot of great vacation photos on the blog hop.
The theme this week is: The Letter "U"
Searching for the right letter "U" pictures I found this great Monsters University topiary display from the 2013 Flower & Garden Festival. What a fun display it was!
I am so looking forward to seeing the Flower and Garden Festival this year!

Monsters University topiary display from the 2013 Flower & Garden Festival

What is your favorite topiary display at Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival?

Time to link up your Wordless Wednesday...

Wordless Wednesday ~ Welcome Spring!

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Welcome to The Disney Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop here at Focused on the Magic.com where each week we gather with other Disney Bloggers to link up and share our Wordless Wednesday or Almost Wordless Wednesday Disney related picture posts.

This week's theme is Spring Fever to celebrate the first day of Spring!

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Time to link up!

Photo Flashback ~ Mother's Day Surprise

It's time for Photo Flashback Friday here at Focused on the Magic!
Time to once again dust off our Walt Disney World photo albums and take another look at some of our favorite photos from vacations past.
This weekend we'll be celebrating Mother's Day and today I'd like to share a post about one very magical Disney Mother's Day Surprise.

It's time for Photo Flashback Friday here at Focused on the Magic!

Time to once again dust off our Walt Disney World photo albums and take another look at some of our favorite photos from vacations past.

If you are new to the hop, Welcome! I hope you enjoy your visit. For those returning, Welcome Back! If you are new here and would like to join in on the fun, you'll find out how at the end of this post. I would love to have you share your flashback photos with us.

This week I am continuing my Epcot Flower & Garden Festival theme. I had no idea when I started it I would be on my third week of F&G flashback. It's just too much fun for me, looking back at all the wonderful memories of the Flower & Garden Festival, I just had to share a few more.

Today's pictures are of the topiaries in Pixie Hollow. This is always a must-do attraction for me. I have to confess, I enjoy it most when I'm touring solo or with my flower and gardening buddies. I think my DH and two sons would rather count daisy petals in the wind than visit the flowering fairies at Epcot;)

Focused on the Magic Flashback Friday Pixie Hollow

This attraction is exclusive to The Flower & Garden Festival each year. It's grown in size each year and this year they have added a new fairy friend this year. You can read all about her HERE at The Disney Parks Blog.

Photo opportunities abound in Pixie Hollow so give yourself plenty of time. Sorry this flashback is so brief (and late) but I'm still enjoying " the new computer smell" today while loading up all my stuff. It's intoxicating:)

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Sunday

Walt Disney World Resort Horticulture Fun Facts

Spring is in the air, flowers are blooming here at home and soon at the annual Epcot Flower and Garden Festival which will be held this year from March 05 - May 18, 2014 , so let's talk horticulture today!

Well-trimmed trees and clean-cut lawns grace Walt Disney World Resort property year-round (not just during the annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival but it’s no easy task. Take a look at these fun facts to get a better idea of the Disney magic that goes into making Walt Disney World Resort the best groomed place on earth:

Nearly 12 percent of Walt Disney World property — an area equivalent to nearly 3,000 football fields — is devoted to gardens and maintained landscapes. (That’s 4,000 acres worth of beauty.)

Each year the Walt Disney World Horticulture team plants 3 million bedding plants and annuals, and maintains millions of other plants including more than 4 million shrubs, 13,000 roses and more than 200 of the famous topiaries that have become synonymous with Disney Parks.

The “Liberty Oak,” which is the focal point of the Liberty Square area in Magic Kingdom park, is the proud parent of more than 500 young trees. They all started out as acorns harvested from the majestic oak.
Horticulturists use 8,500 interior plants each year and add 6,000 trees to the exterior landscapes throughout Walt Disney World Resort . . . and they maintain some four million shrubs in landscapes.

If you are looking for some help in keeping your grounds green, head to the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival to see one of the many sessions dedicated to helping you build a better garden.

Versailles comes to mind at the perfectly manicured parterre garden accented with geraniums at the France pavilion in the World Showcase during the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival.

Source: Disney Parks
Images: ©Disney

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What is your favorite part of the Flower & Garden Festival?

Have a magical day!

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Now it's time to hop aboard the magical Blogorail and see what my friends on the Magical Blogorail are sharing.

Thursday

Photo Flashback ~Flower & Garden Butterflies

It's Photo Flashback Friday! Time to once again dust off our Walt Disney World photo albums and take another look at some of our favorite photos from vacations past.
Continuing the Epcot Flower & Garden Festival theme from the last two weeks, I am sharing photos today that were taken in Bambi's Butterfly House. Many you've seen here before but they are oldies but goodies to me.
I've also included a few fun butterfly facts because a trip to The Butterfly House is also an educational experience.
This attraction is exclusive to The Flower & Garden Festival each year. I always try to plan enough time to see all the displays and to snap a few (dozen;) shots.

There are over 1,000 native butterflies representing up to 10 species.

Photo Flashback ~ Flower Power Concert

It's Photo Flashback Friday! Time to once again enter the Wayback Machine and have another look at our Disney photos.
Continuing the Epcot Flower & Garden Festival theme from last week I have another flashback from a magical trip I took to Walt Disney World in 2006 with our whole family.
This is such a special picture because it was taken during the Flower Power concert series. All four of us (DH and both DSs) were sitting right up front singing along and truly enjoying the show. My kids grew up hearing The Association so they knew all the songs and DH and I grew up listening to them on the radio. It was such a wonderful experience to see them perform live and with my boys.

It's Photo Flashback Friday! Time to once again enter the Wayback Machine and have another look at our Disney photos.
In honor of the opening of the Flower & Garden Festival this week I have a flower filled flashback from a magical trip I took to Walt Disney World in 2010.

This was such a special trip because it was my first full solo week. It was a wonderful experience even though I missed the family very much. You can read all about how it came to be here.

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It was a very hot sunny afternoon (as you can see from the blown out skies) in May that I took these pictures of the Beauty and The Beast display, which was located on the lagoon side of France. Cogsworth looks like he's enjoying the sunny day but at this point we were melting and ready for some lunch.

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On this trip I organized a photowalk around the festival. We met in the morning at the entrance to Epcot and then followed the special Flower & Garden Festival program all the way around the Word Showcase snapping away.

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Doesn't Lumiere looked surprised? I love the expression they are able to create from simple plant material.
It was a magical day with a lot of picture taking and photography chatting, stopping for lunch in Italy and riding a few rides.
I'll be posting more of our adventure and my solo week in my next Flashback and throughout the month!

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Tuesday

Wordless Wednesday ~ Flowers & Gardens

Come along and join the fun! Link up your Disney Almost Wordless or Wordless Wednesday posts, make new Disney friends, visit with old friends, see some great pictures at

The Disney Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop

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This week's theme is...

Disney F lowers & Gardens

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Surfing Goofy & Beach themed Minnie topiaries displayed in a bed of petunias at the entrance to Epcot's Flower & Garden Festival in 2008.

Bambi's Butterfly House (Presented by HGTV) at Epcot's International Flower & Garden Festival in Disney World is bigger than ever this year. Even more of a chance to get a real butterfly kiss with 1,000 native butterflies representing up to 10 species.

Wordless Wednesday ~ Garden Pixies

Tinkerbell Topiary 2010

Pixie Hollow Fairy Garden at The Epcot Flower & Garden Festival is presented by Tinkerbell and The Pixie Hollow Games and is located on the Test Track Walkway.

Young Pixie fans who enter this whimsical garden also discover play structures for children ages 2-5 and soft green artificial turf to play on.

Guests will have the opportunity to meet Tinker Bell and her fairy friends for photos and autographs outdoors at a meet & greet area behind MouseGears daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

The current schedule, which is of course subject to change :

9:30 a.m.: Tinker Bell and Terence

10:10 a.m.: Rosetta and Vidia

10:50 a.m.: Tinker Bell and Terence

11:30 a.m.: Rosetta and Vidia

12:10: Tinker Bell and Terence

12:50 p.m.: Rosetta and Vidia

1:30 p.m.: Terence

2 p.m.: Tinker Bell

2:40 p.m.: Rosetta and Vidia

3:20 p.m. Tinker Bell and Terence

4 p.m. Rosetta and Vidia