Over at the Meadow at Longwood Gardens they have installed over 180 birdhouses. I really liked these ones, which remind me of the hats that nuns wear, for some reason?!
The view from my office window. Note the break in the safety barrier, the gate and the position of the tree. I can only assume this was done as as part of an artistic statement by the landscapers! Incidentally, if you were to go through the gate it's about a 60' tumble down a rocky cliff face into the quarry!
I caught sight of the yellow-streaked back hoe today, skulking through the wooded area atop the reclaimed quarry next to our office. It was difficult to see at first but with patience I was able to get a quick shot of it as it slowly devoured a few trees, like some voracious ironclad dinosaur. I can only assume that this landscape is now deemed ripe for development and we will shortly have a multitude of glass-fronted office buildings looking down on us. That's progress.
We have had several "right-sizing opportunities" over recent years, or what we always used to call layoffs, and this has recently resulted in emptying offices and cubes and collection materials in the copy room. There is a certain irony on seeing several corporate baubles among the usual work-related ephemera. One that really struck me was this star award. The fact that it was chipped speaks volumes. Was it damaged in an act of anger or perhaps as a dramatic statement?
No time today for a phone shot so I dug one up from the summer - spiral stairs. bUt iS iT aRt?
Today we had a 100 foot tall oak tree felled as it was dead, and although unlikely to fall was certainly going to lose branches in the winter snow. We ended up with a lot of lumber. It may just look like a pile of wood at the moment but we are getting our thinking caps on to see what we can do with some of it artistically. Rustic table and chairs maybe. Who knows...
Getting ready for an office move today so I thought I would capture the graffiti left by my daughter when she came to the office in the winter. Interestingly she had originally put the colors in the right order, so someone's being playing with it!
Saw this sign on the door at our local High School during orientation and I have to ask what on earth goes on here? I am not going to comment on the relative merits of wrestling as a sport, having been brought up with the circus-like antics in the 70's, but calling it a dance may be talking it a bit too far :-)
Today I was able to do something that would have been unimaginable when I started my original blog buT iS iT aRt? back in 2005, namely use a phone app to directly post to blogger. I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier. Anyhow, today I was able to escape the office at lunchtime and get some exercise at a nearby park. During my stroll I captured (as best I could on my Phone) an early Autumn leaf floating downstream.
Oh the lovely supermarket! This time my local, family owned Wegman's where they have, hidden atop the ice cream freezers, a full size replica of the Liberty Bell.
