Travelling as much as I do, I’ve seen a fair few plants in my time. Here are some of the more unusual/spectacular ones I’ve come across
parrot plant
pitcher plant
angels wing plant
sea pandan
Napoleon’s button tree
sharing with Ailsa and other plant lovers
A few “entertainment” photos from my archives
graffiti/wall art in India
a group of sculptures in Luxembourg’s Place du Théâtre
colourful characters in Beaufort dispensing good will and alcohol
a series of photos from Luxembourg’s annual street art/animation festival
Tutti Frutti
Gromit
Every couple of years Bristol organises a festival to raise money for the Children’s hospital. Much like the elephant or gorilla parades seen elsewhere in the world Bristol makes use of well known-characters. Blanks are sold to local businesses to be decorated and they are then placed in different locations around the city. A map is provided so that you can visit them all and the figures are of source of entertainment to the children (and adults). In 2013 the theme was Gromit, who features in the cartoons, created in Bristol, called Wallace and Gromit. In 2015 it was the turn of Shaun the lamb (note the play on the words for ‘shorn’).
St Mathias church, Budapest
Szechenyi baths mosaic ceiling, Budapest
hot air balloon in Cappadocia
icon in the icon museum, Girne, N. Cyprus
stained glass window at Chambercombe Manor, N. Devon
ferris wheel, Luxembourg
Su Mei Tse’s installation in the Mudam, Luxembourg
sharing with Sunday Stills
a modern take on an ancient stone circle at Campo del sole on Lake Trasimeno, Italy
the Harmonic Fields sonic installation in Dorset
animal sculpture in human pose (Luxembourg)
this hand sculpture in Ettelbruck (Luxembourg) gives me the creeps with all its little mouths
Do you like modern art? I’m not always a great fan but sometimes it surprises and delights me.
sharing with Ailsa and other travel themers
Hats in Luxembourg’s Street Art Animation festival
hat made out of a water lily leaf in Sri Lanka
girl making a “poem” hat in Hue, Vietnam. Called “poem” hats because when they are held up to the light you can see a picture in the hat
these very young boys and girls are about to undergo the initiation ceremony to become monks and nuns at Ananda Paya, Bagan, Myanmar
woman in tribal headgear, Myanmar
Sharing with other hat lovers and Ailsa
The beauty of the changing of the seasons in Luxembourg. ‘From this to that’, as suggested by Ed
In the south of Luxembourg, between sloping vineyards and the river Moselle at Remerschen, a number of old gravel pits have been turned into a nature reserve with special emphasis on providing a haven for birds. It’s a peaceful place and one to which I return as often as possible.
It’s a shame that so many of these wild places only exist now because they are ‘managed’ in some way.
you only get to see displays of cured meats such as these in the autumn – mouthwateringly good
sharing with Sunday Stills
I spy with my little eye something beginning with C:
sharing with Sunday Stills
This week’s challenge by the Daily Post was to share a photo of something that is a work of art to us. “It could be some actual “art,” like a painting by your grandmother or the misshapen but perfect clay sculpture your child brought home from kindergarden, or something most people wouldn’t consider beautiful at all, but that has meaning to you. The important thing is that it’s art in your eyes”.
sculpture using flattened bottle tops
costumes worn by one of the acts participating in the Streetart Animation festival in Luxembourg in 2013
part of a visual/sound installation called Harmonic Fields, which took place on Portland Bill, UK, in 2012
one of the panels inside Watts chapel, designed and decorated by Mary Fraser-Tyler (Arts and Crafts Movement), with the assistance of nearly every village living in Compton
In 2013 Luxembourg hosted an Elephant Parade. This elephant was painted by a friend of ours, Jeanette Bremin, to commemorate her daughter
The question is not what you look at, but what you see - Thoreau 