I recently went to Florida to visit my mom and while there we went to Leu Gardens (one of our favorite places), and the Museum of Art in Orlando where I discovered my new favorite artist. But first the gardens. Because, well, flowers.
If you haven't noticed it by now, let me make it clear. I adore flowers and gardens. I could take pictures of them forever, because even a bad picture of a flower can be beautiful. And the colors...oh my! Flowers stun me with their fabulous colors. If only I had a green thumb to go along with my love...
Anyway. Leu Gardens, which was exceedingly hot and humid, but still lovely...
This is a darling little cottage on the property where a black cat was being fed on the front step.
The roses had long since gone by for the most part, but I did manage to find a few that were blooming
Love this cool bird house, though I don't think it's actually a bird house. My boss said butterfly house which makes sense since this was in the 'butterfly garden' but I never knew butterflies needed houses.
No idea what this flower is but wow. Is it not fabulously gorgeous?!
My new favorite artist. Jon Muth. I love him.
Dust Devils.
This is not Jon Muth. I recognized it immediately as a Ralph Blakelock because we have one of his paintings at the pawn shop where I work. I love him, too.
There was more, as you can imagine, but the only other artist I'll tell you about is Nick Cave. Some of his 'sound suits' were on display, and there was a video of a person in one of his suits, moving. The image was then doubled, or mirrored, creating a 42 minute film. I couldn't find a link to what I saw, which was mesmerizing, but this short clip gives you an idea and there are a few brief bits showing parts of the video. It's the black and white one, a bit like a Rorschach image.
So. Wow, right? Lot's of cool stuff to digest. I also read FOUR books, which I will be telling you about in future posts, and saw a movie I can't review without giving anything away but must recommend: A Simple Favor. That's all I'll say.
Wow. We're down to the last three a-z posts and I sure hope you're all doing better than me. I haven't made it around to nearly as many peeps as I wanted even though I wrote nearly ALL my posts in advance. It was hard responding to everyone's comments, checking out the participants, AND keeping in touch with all the regular blogs I follow! As of today I'll have made it round to 214 blogs on the list, which isn't too bad but I was really hoping to do better. If I haven't made it to yours my apologies.
Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled programming for the month, The Phonetic Alphabet...
In the phonetic alphabet, Xray represents the letter X. I think we all know what an xray is so I won't bore anyone with the definition. Instead, I'll offer an interesting picture I found:
X-ray fine art photography of needlefish by Peter Dazeley
