Pic Today 11/10/12

ARMOR PLATED

WALNUT TREE

There's a tree here

that stands out from the others.

Silver against the autumn colors

of every other tree.

It's artist, Robert Lobe, 

who found this long dead

walnut tree trunk,

and hammered sheets of heavy gauge

annealed aluminum all around.

And fastened it with

stainless steel hardware.

So this walnut tree lives on, magnificently,

shining bright in the fall sun.

A sculptural echo

of a Missouri walnut tree.

Pic Today 11/9/12

OUTDOOR INTERACTIVE

SCULPTURE

FOR THE BLIND

Something new in outdoor playground installations:

Touch and play earth sculpture

for the blind.

First stop --

a braille podium model

of the earth installation, small scale,

with directions and explanations

of the giant earth version nearby

(in braille, of course.)

And then a chance to feel and explore

the exact same "face"

recessed into the earth,

only bigger!

(It's fun for kids, too.)

Pic Today 11/8/12

"Oh beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain."

                                 -- America The Beautiful

Pic Today 11/7/12

WE VOTED,

WE CHOSE,

NOW WE CELEBRATE

Record numbers of voters 

made it to the polls,

and chose their members of Congress,

their local representatives,

and re-elected President Obama.

Let our country reunite into one,

and solve our budget and social problems.

Pic Today 11/6/12

YAY,

IT'S VOTING DAY

. . . and that means

no more political TV ads.

Non-stop, horrible, negative,

relentless, annoying, insulting,
name-calling, finger pointing,

round-the-clock propaganda!
(Whew.)

Who ever wins,

I'm just glad the ads will stop running.