Catching The Sun Sculpture 

During a break from these rains, I took a walk in the garden.  Not my garden, but a local garden.  This year they went to the ocean.  They have fish swimming in the flower beds, a closer detail, and are currently making a whale.  I'll be posting more once they complete everything, and the plants grow up around them.

On a side trip around the garden, I came across this cat, though the wife said it was a bunny.  She might be right, sometimes I see more of a bunny.

Between noon and two o'clock we had a very big rain shower, but now the heat is already up to 80 degrees and humid.  Not a day to be outside, but I am cool indoors and thinking about a walk we took around Frederick Meijer Gardens.
Cooling Off at the Gardens
Musical Windchimes
A Walk in the Park
Waterfall at the park

Around our city of Grand Rapids this summer you will find many different statues designed by the artist Otterness.  He is the many that has done some of the Macy Parade Balloons.  The website that will show you more is (www.tomostudio.com) and it will also give you a map of where to find the statues if you should come to Grand Rapids.  I have not had a chance yet to see all of them, but I decided that today was the day to share some of the ones I have seen.  I already shared two of them earlier that can be seen in Frederick Meijer Gardens.  I set these up on storyboards so that you would not have to click open so many pictures.  Hope you enjoy them.

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Dancing in GR

This could make you look twice, "A Walk To Heaven" at Nasher Sculpture Gardens in Dallas Texas Walk to Heaven and then a few other sculptures that i really enjoyed Hard at Work   High Rise in a Hole

I found these tiny little daisies in my neighbors yard the other day when I was walking around.
Poster of Tiny Daisies
The artist is said to have been representing his mother in this sculpture - she was a master weaver.
Spider sculpture
Juliet, the Ballerina, is one of the very colorful statues at the gardens. Juliet
Tree of Education an Otterness Sculpture
The Orchestra large red statue can be seen from many places in the gardens.
This Sculpture of DaVinci's Horse is the centerpiece of the gardens.
Poster of DaVinci's Horse

This is a part of a sculpture that's sitting in a little fountain in a downtown courtyard that I walk through every morning on my way to work.DESCRIPTION_HERE

Here is  a photo of the entire fountain and sculpture. DESCRIPTION_HERE

This sculpture is one of many on the Mayo Clinic grounds in downtown Rochester, MN.  The building in the background of both pictures is the Plummer Building, also apart of Mayo Clinic.

My church (Garden of Grace United Church of Christ, www.gogucc.com) recently joined the United Church of Christ (UCC - www.ucc.org), and while attending the Southeast Conference this past weekend, I did some picture taking...  

My entry for the bi-weekly challenge for Strangers is (ALAS!) too late, but I liked this picture so much I thought I'd share it anyway.  The Beautiful Stranger  I believe it also fits the Emotion challenge this week.

Also, Niki in the Garden, the world's largest exhibition of internationally renowned artist Niki de Saint Phalle's outdoor sculptures ever presented, at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, was a great source for intersting subjects.  Here is one example:  Waterplay

Haven't posted in a while, thought today was a good day!

Here are some more images from our recent trip to Germany. This image is of the entry gate to Dachau Concentration Camp. Arbeit macht frei means work will make you free. This image is of the memorial to victims of the Holocaust at Dachau. This next image is from the old town area of Tuebingen.  I loved the shape of the trees and the late day light. This hard working fellow also resides in the old town area of Tuebingen. This last image is of the ceiling in the cathedral at the University of Salzburg. I think all the faces looking down are really interesting...almost haunting.

This is my first time to try my hand at this.  I really enjoy everyones pictures and I hope I'm not a fish out ofwater and this will be a walk in the park.  Just one more picture, I don't know what to call it besides a wheel.

at Scrap Daddy's:
you ride in it
sculpture

downtown:
waterfall
 approach
waiting
winter
Dean's
courthouse
 thanks, Bill and Karen!

At least I have an office to go to even if I am playing here instead of working.  Of course, its not as beautiful as SG's office or as tasty as Chef's.  We do have an interesting statue  out front.  The Paper Airplane kid has cool shoes and this guy sits on my desk to keep me company.

Thanks for stopping by.  Please exit the building carefully.

At Scrap Daddy's:
his current project
c'mon get happy
you can trust your car
henson mobile
with downtown behind
lording over
welcome
 workshop

Took a trip up to the winter wonderlandof Michigan Tech Universityfor their annual Winter Carnival. Its amazing what they do each year. I woke up early one morning and took a drive in the  frozen sunrise over Keewenaw Bay. Later that day we went up the peninsula and found some deer  Grazing. Have you ever seen a deer  nuzzle?

The city of San Diego commissioned local artists to Donate "Urban Trees" along the Water by the Embarcadero. 30 of them were Created. This one was done by my neighbor Monique. She's funky, It's funky.
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The guys at the Art Car Museum recommended Scrap Daddy's.  They also recommended the house made of beer cans, but we didn't get there. . . next trip?

Tall umm Thing
Fork Tree
Teeth
John at Scrap Daddy's
Spoons

While on my way to the library, I ran into these....
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I miss being able to use the Gallery function.

I quess this is it. It was fun! This is a combo, Is this legal? Do you see what I see? The END of a birthyear and vacation.
Birthacation
A little more, too.
CMA Lamp Post
Sand Sculpture
I forgot this the other day.
For All

My Entry For The Knockers Theme...LOL!

Bathtub Knockers