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