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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

An Evening in the Garden

Blue Skies! Finally!
These were so scrumptious.
 

It's always so crowded in the Orchid show, and it's hard to get photos around other iFruit fotographers and those with enormous lenses, but look how things climb vertically in the Conservatory.

I just wanted to go back outside and soak up the sun.
Flirting with Galatea

Saturday, March 31, 2013
New York Botanical Garden
Orchid Exhibition

About the Exhibition
Manolo Valdés: Monumental Sculpture comprises seven bronze, cor-ten steel, and aluminum sculptures sited throughout the Garden’s dramatic landscape in locations that showcase the relationship between art and nature and promise visual interest during the changing seasons. In this exhibition Valdés has employed his signature monumental female heads in sculptures towering up to 17 feet tall and more than 50 feet wide. Each figure is enveloped by inventive floating headdresses inspired by shapes and forms found in nature, including ferns, palm fronds, and butterflies.

Middle Small:
l: 3 statues on the lawn in front of Conservatory; Acadia in the distance; Alhambra in middle; Galatea 
r: Ivy in the Reflecting Pool
Middle Medium:
l: Alhambra framing the Conservatory
r: Acadia
Last Large:
Galatea

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