I finally uploaded some of my photos from the trip down here (all out of order, of course!) and wanted to share these two from the Utah Field House of Natural History. Mostly, the place was full of fossils and dinosaurs, which, after seeing all of the shifting layers of earth on the drive down, is now infinitely more interesting to me. But these Native American wares were also hiding out. I love the motifs, especially on the boots.
Bear with me while I run around my new home and revel in its gorgeousness. Paul and I went to Yellowstone on Wednesday and what started out to be a kind of crummy day turned out to be spectacularly beautiful. We saw super-saturated landscapes after the rain (find the rainbow in the photo below) and had a short-lived encounter with a grizzly– our very first bear sighting in the park.
I also put some photos of South Dakota’s Badlands up on Flickr, as below:
We’re off to Texas (our home state) for a couple of weeks, and I probably won’t be popping in, but one of these days we’ll land. For now I’m enjoying the wanderlust.
I’ve been writing all of these posts ahead of time (it’s Tuesday right now, and Paul is 5 hours from being here, not to mention Friday is my last day of work, so you can see why!). Blue is kind of a hard color for me, because I automatically imagine a darker blue, which isn’t one of my personal favorites. But then I started thinking about the transition I’m about to make, and looking at photos of New York and Bozeman, and I reconsidered blue.
This is a spot near the North Cove in Battery Park which I discovered on a walking tour when I first moved to New York. The tour was during the day, and the guide mentioned the blue lights at night. I wanted to go back to see them, but somehow four years slipped away. So when we were downtown for a concert last year, I went back with Paul and Alexa. It’s a gorgeous little secret spot. I always wished I had someone to take there.
Luminous reflections of Times Square in the rain. Possibly more exciting than the actual hyper buildings, in my opinion. I love taking photos in the rain.
That photo reminded me of this one, the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone. The water gets cooler the further it gets from the spring, and different bacteria grow in the different temperatures. Hence the color variation. Nature is so amazing!
And finally, a big blue sky outside of the MSU art studios. I can’t wait to get back to it.
For today’s color, let’s go to the wonderful little island of Burano, in Venice, where I travelled in March. Not to be confused with Murano, the glass-making island, Burano is a colorful island known for lace-making that is about 40 minutes out on the vaporetto. I read about it in our guidebook and knew it was the one thing I must see in Venice.
I peered around the back of one of the main canals and found this green still life waiting for me.
And on the main canal, a fisherman (maybe?) and a rusty pipe, with faded green shutters to draw your eye in. I am a shy photographer, and I think he was just about to notice I was taking his photo, so I darted off right afterward.
A green curtain hanging in a doorway, with it’s little lace trimmings.
And a quaint patio full of citrus trees. I love the combination of orange and green. That reminds me that I have an orange and green Donald Sultan Print from my Lincoln Center days that I’d really like to frame and display.
And the final burst of green: the shiny, clean vaporetto seats on the way back. For more colorful photos of Burano, visit my flickr. There are enough in there for every color this week, but that’d be too easy.
