Cool Colors

Just looking at bamboo feels cooling and restful.

Road sign

Someone has had a heyday with this sign and in the process created some great textures!

It always pays to have your camera at the ready!

You just never know when a photo opportunity will present itself. Larry and I were having a drink of wine at his kitchen table and voila, a wonderful shadow image appears on his shirtfront. Thank you, Larry, for providing the canvas! 

Contrast

The last of the photos I will post from the trip last week. I like the various contrasts in this photo-the contrast in color, in texture and in shape. I also like the gracefulness of hte long leaves.

Bamboo and glass forest

The Chihuly glass exhibit at Cheekwood Botanical garden included a walk through a bamboo "forest" interspersed with these wonderful red glass poles. The contrast between teh greens of the babmboo and the reds in the glass was stunning.

Falling water

This is a detail of a metal serrated columnal sculpture at Cheekwood Botanical Garden in Nashville, Water runs silently down all 4 sides of the sculpture sliding over the serrated edges. Somehow this creates rapidly changing patterns in the flowing water. Depending on how the light hits it there is dimension to the water as well. It is lovely and soothing and a photo does not do it justice.

Intertwined

While I was in Nashville last week I went to Cheekwood Botanical Gardens to see the Chihuly glass exhibit ( more of those images later). The grounds of this old mansion are beautiful and most of the trees and plantings are very mature. This vine growing up a pergola must be  very old because the vines are more like tree trunks then anything else. I am looking up into it and it amazing to see how intertwined and graceful all these 6 inch "vines" are.