The Denver Botanical Gardens

Unidentified hanging purple flower, in the Tropical Conservatory.










































Clematis smilacifolia
(That means it's related to your tame garden clematis, and is also part of the buttercup family!)


My old friend salvia! Salvia greggi, variety 'Furman's red'.
























CORRECTION: Emily FAILS once again at reading labels! (Though one might also say that the DBGardens failed at clear labeling.) This is apparently not Galium odoratum at all but Anemone! Specific species name unknown. All apologies where due.






















Nelumbo nucifera
a.k.a. lotus!

Illustration Friday : Legendary

The legend of Angelique (Angelica) saved by Roger (Ruggiero) is found in the 1516 adventure poem Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. (He was Italian, as evidenced by all the o’s).

Pencil sketch from a model by Antione-Louis Barye, at la Musée des Beaux Arts in Strasbourg.

The Temple of Dendur

Sketch from a visit to the Metropolitan in September.
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And a headdress copied from a textbook on Egyptian art.

Assemble-a-Story : Excerpts

found postcard

found between the pages of Clea (Lawrence Durrell) in a used bookstore

the cathedral in Milan

On the roof, looking south.

a very old musical instrument

Blind contour drawing of a violoncello, ca. 1650.
In a museum in Florence, whose name I've forgotten.

Tate Modern, fall 2007

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MoMA, spring 2008

I'd never seen this piece by Wilhelm Lehmbruck before, and found it very compelling.






















No matter how many times I see Giacometti, I never get tired of him.






















Olafur Eliasson's exhibit was called "Take your time"; here is our view of a fan whirling freeling in the atrium, which we watched from a leisurely view on the couches.

Visiting the Berkshires

City of Peace : a Shaker village in Hancock, Massachusetts.

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Illustration Friday : Sugary

The Victor Immanuel II monument, in Rome, is a tiered and sugar-coated cake.

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The Morgan Library, last spring

A show of Irving Penn portraits.









Irving Penn was one of the very first artists who I fell in love with, circa fifth grade. He came in the same wave (to me) as Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Steichen.



And here is one-forth of a page of the Ramsey Psalter Fragment, ca1300-1310, London.

Illustration Friday : Packed

The sky in Milan is full of saints, sentries, theologians, angels--hundreds of people balanced on tapering towers, facing outwards at the city from the cathedral.


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I still miss my lost umbrella.

Italy, summer 2005 : Paestum

Excerpt from a contact sheet

Italy, summer 2005
35mm, black and white, SLR

Homesick for Colorado

Illustration Friday : Clique

John the Baptist:

An outside member to the standard New Testament clique, though later effectively absorbed.

in the "Battistero", Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa


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