WORMHOLE

 

A tunnel of changing colors in motion. Not quite the same effect as when the Starship Enterprise goes into warp drive, but still pretty cool. The path is one way, with the lights moving away from visitors. You could feel like you are being sucked through. What happens when you come out the other end?             

MOTHERSHIP

 

Another bauble in Garden Glow. The Climatron is a geodesic dome that contains four climatic zones, formed by complex internal shapes and air systems. As with lots of the other glow features, the colors change and pulse.                    

INTO THE WOODS

 

Just around the bend from the viewpoint in yesterday’s post, visitors to Garden Glow pass through curtains of pulsing light. A single exposure can only capture a moment. These lights were constantly changing color and pattern.                 

THE MOON GLOWS, TOO

The botanical garden calls this its central axis, a long reflecting pool, longer than it seems here. A large geodesic dome called the Climatron is behind me, and we’ll get to that. The photograph can’t capture the constant movement and color changes of the lights. Only the moon held steady.                     

THERE MUST BE SOME LIGHT

Life moves on, notwithstanding my view of national politics. Our wonderful botanical garden has a year-end event called Garden Glow, when the paths, buildings and plants are covered fantastical, computer-controlled colored lights. We went to the garden members’ opening night preview last night. I’ll stick with this for a bit, unless, of course, I am overcome with rage.

Road trip this weekend to see a very old friend. May be some good photo ops.                     

EVERYTHING IS BACKWARDS

 

One blow after another. The execrable Matt Gaetz as Attorney General? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as Secretary off Health and Human Services, someone who discourages using vaccines and thinks something in the water can make children transgender? Seriously? I’m drifting into a personal, unproven conspiracy theory that Trump, full of schadenfreude, really wants to wreck the country. So, another old photo, an infrared looking over Forest Park, where the trees are white and the sky is dark.                  

LOUIE LOUIE

 

Well, I thought I was doing better until I found out that the president-elect had nominated Satan’s stepson to be attorney general, our chief law enforcement official. I got the news while waiting at our major hospital for a steroid shot in my lower back. Maybe I should have asked for one in my head, too.

Anyway, another shot from my visit to Forest Park. The statue is called The Apotheosis of Saint Louis (Louis IX of France). His history is, let’s say, controversial but the statue is a local icon.