"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts toward wisdom."
Psalms 90:12; 139:13-17.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Greenhouse 2: gourds
For the second year in a row, our visit to the conservatory coincided with the Gourd Show weekend. Look at Chihuly's work, then look at these gourds. Both, a wild creative dance between unity and variety, form and freedom.
Thank you--I am kind of amazed at the variety found within the gourd family, given the constraints those genes have to work within.
I also had to think of Dale Chihuly, artist, as someone made in the image of a very creative God, the God who set in motion and sustains a creation that produces those gourds.
Lovely! (And you should see what my son's girlfriend gave me for Christmas. It's a huge, hollowed-out gourd that's in the shape of an apple, red, with green leaves on the top (painted I'm sure) and the part around the stem cut to lift out like a lid. In other words, an apple-shaped cookie jar made from a gourd. Oh for a digital camera to show you!)
Yes, Violet, you need a digital camera! But I can imagine what it looks like, to some degree. There were two tables with lattices hung with painted gourds, with little holes for birdhouses, and one was a big red apple. :-) Some of these people get really creative. They have more time on their hands than I do, for sure. I think a lot of them are retired.
very cool!
ReplyDeleteYes. Nice photos!
ReplyDeleteThank you--I am kind of amazed at the variety found within the gourd family, given the constraints those genes have to work within.
ReplyDeleteI also had to think of Dale Chihuly, artist, as someone made in the image of a very creative God, the God who set in motion and sustains a creation that produces those gourds.
Lovely! (And you should see what my son's girlfriend gave me for Christmas. It's a huge, hollowed-out gourd that's in the shape of an apple, red, with green leaves on the top (painted I'm sure) and the part around the stem cut to lift out like a lid. In other words, an apple-shaped cookie jar made from a gourd. Oh for a digital camera to show you!)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Vashti.
ReplyDeleteYes, Violet, you need a digital camera! But I can imagine what it looks like, to some degree.
There were two tables with lattices hung with painted gourds, with little holes for birdhouses, and one was a big red apple. :-) Some of these people get really creative.
They have more time on their hands than I do, for sure. I think a lot of them are retired.
Very Beautiful! All the defintions,shapes and sizes remind us of the magnitude of our Lord!
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