Last in the series of sculptures in the Patterns In Nature show at the Missouri Botanical Garden. This one is, appropriately, called Balan...

  First, a correction. I said that the sculpture in yesterday's post was called Balance. The paper map the Missouri Botanical Garden gav...

  The name of the sculpture seems appropriate, but it may have to have more to do with structural engineering and metallurgy than a delicate...

  That's the association I got when I first started editing this picture, if maybe a science-fictiony version. The geodesic dome, the Cl...

Metal flower petals in the botanical garden's central reflecting pool. The geodesic dome known as the Climatron is in the background. Th...

I had a picture of this a while ago in the daytime, It's much more interesting at night, with the lights within the cut-out metal tower,...

  That's the name of this installation at the Patterns In Nature show at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Insight perhaps because you can ...

  This work, which I think is called Point of View, appears to be suspended over a gentle, sphere-like fountain.  However, it is inside a ga...

  I think that's what this one is called. (Correction welcome. It's hard to tell looking back at the map they gave us.) Given the ri...

  A little while ago I had a series of posts about an outdoor sculpture show at the Missouri Botanical Garden of work by a group called HYBY...

  A last image (for now) from the HYBYCOZO exhibit at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The caption is the name of this piece. The building on ...

Close-up of one of the faces of a work in the HYBYCOZO exhibit called Rhombi. It's easier to perceive from farther away but think of the...

  That's what this one at the HYBYCOZO exhibit at the botanical garden makes be think of. The title of the piece is Point of View. Looks...

  That's the title of this piece at the HYBYCOZO exhibit at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The dictionary built into my Mac defines the ...

  That's the title of this trio of objects in the botanical garden's reflecting pool at the HYBYCOZO exhibit. Can't wait to see ...

I'm going to wander around the HYBYCOZO exhibit at the botanical garden for a bit. It's interesting and the garden is always worth a...

  Change of scene to another St. Louis institution. The gorgeous Missouri Botanical Garden often has outdoor exhibits of special sculpture o...

  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 t...

  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 mak...

  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 as...