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

Photo of the Day: Orchids Again

New York Botanical Garden, Orchid Show, Late March 2011

Photo of the Day: Orchids Again

New York Botanical Garden, Orchid Show, Late March 2011

Photo of the Day: Orchids Again

New York Botanical Garden, Orchid Show, Late March 2011

Photo of the Day: Orchids Again

New York Botanical Garden, Orchid Show, Late March 2011

Photo of the Day: Orchids Again

New York Botanical Garden, Orchid Show, Late March 2011

Photo of the Day: Orchids Again

New York Botanical Garden, Orchid Show, Late March 2011

Photos of the Day: Perspectives of Nature

Last weekend I got to enjoy two very different cultural offerings in New York.

One day I attend a free art show at the Park Avenue Amory put on via the auspices of the American Folk Art Museum, celebrating the Year of the Quilt. The exhibition was entitled Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts. Over 600 quilts, only in red and white. It was really overwhelming, and I wished so much that Grandma Ollie could have been with me. I suspect though, that the hundreds of mostly anonymous quilters were there with us in spirit. Why else would I have been so weepy?

I don't know my quilting patterns so much, but I'm pretty sure this one is a Tree of Life:


One of the other days I went back to The New York Botanical Gardens to check out the annual orchid show and to hike around the forest paths in near solitude. One mental health day spent in nature, hiking about, enjoying the sun, almost silence, and hints of spring will really recharge your soul.

This day the conservatory wasn't as crowded, so I had a chance to really get up close and personal with one of my favorites:

I'll have more photo essays on each excursion later.