TENTACLES

Year after year, when I walk past this tree at Garden Glow, I feel as if long arms with sharp fingers could reach down and clutch me. It is an uneasy sensation but I have always made it out of the garden’s gate. Can I be confident that I will be so fortunate next year?                  

HOUSE PAINT

Another perennial feature at Garden Glow. Henry Shaw, a 19th Century rich businessman and amateur botanist, owned the land that became the Missouri Botanical Garden and adjacent Tower Grove Park. This is his well-preserved home. I don’t understand the technology but the changing light projections precisely fit the building.              

LINE AND PATTERN

 

Another year-after-year favorite at Garden Glow. The lines of small lanterns are perfectly straight. The light colors and patterns are in constant flux. This might be better represented by a video, but this is a photography blog.                        

ELECTRIC PRAIRIE

 

Not the riot of color found in most other displays at Garden Glow, but I like its simplicity and subtlety. And there is no way to find your way through it, only the long way around.       

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.