Tag: nature

More animal architecture

More animal architecture

I’m not sure if it’s the fact that my brain was soaked in Beatrix Potter at a young and impressionable age, or maybe it’s just the profundity of the drawings of Daniel Arsham.

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What would love look like?

What would love look like?

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like”. St. Augustine

 

Wattle Spring

Wattle Spring

“… I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I …

 

Slipper Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens

Slipper Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens

The foliage around these orchids is rich, damp and green. Moss forests, waxy, waving leaves and miniature, curling fern-tendrils allude to a vast miniature world ready to be explored.

 

Butterfly Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens

Butterfly Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens

Another gem from the Orchid Show, New York Botanical Gardens. This is a Butterfly Orchid; Psychopsis Kalihi, native to Trinidad, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.  Share this …

 

Pomegranate: The Enduring Motif

Pomegranate: The Enduring Motif

In Greek mythology the fruit appears in the story of Persephone, stolen by Hades to the underworld. It was a symbol to the Helenic world of marriage, life and regeneration, which equally translated in medieval times to a symbol of fertility.