FLOATING

 

As mentioned, it is hard to get a clean shot at Art In Bloom, what with the crowds. This one worked, and it might be one of my favorites.                    

SOMETHING BAROQUE

 

Another from Art In Bloom at the St. Louis Art Museum (which has the wonderful URL slam.org). This is in a room of Baroque paintings; the one the floral arrangement is based on is off to the left of the frame.                 

ART IN BLOOM

 

I may need to stick with flowers until we head out of town late this week. This weekend brought us the annual Art In Bloom show at the St. Louis Art Museum. Top floral designers present pieces throughout the museum inspired by works in the collection. It gets crowded and hard to line up shots.                    

CITY DAILY PHOTO MARCH THEME - WHITE

Seems like every city has a Ferris wheel these days. This is ours, at St. Louis Union Station. Bright white in the daylight, but covered with colored, pulsing, changing LEDs at night.               

 

   

CHIAROSCURO

 

I went back to the next to last day of the orchid show yesterday. It was so crowded on Saturday that we made it about a third of the way through and left. Not so bad on a weekday. It was beautifully clear, which created interesting lighting opportunities in the glass walled and ceilinged gallery.                   

POTENTIAL

 

It is striking that something as complex as an orchid can come from a simple, symmetrical bud, or, in this case, a cascade of them. It makes for nice layers.              

LOOKS LIKE CANDY

 

Orchids come in an astounding variety of shapes, sizes and colors. I'm no botanist (where I grew up the ground cover was cement and asphalt) but I've never seen anything like this. A sign said it was called something like a spider orchid. I don't think of spiders as curly and pink but what do I know. Looks to me roll-up candy.