Anne Marie Gardens

You know how I'm always on you, dear readers, to get out to your local Art Museum and look around?  Well, here are a few shots from our visit to Anne Marie Sculpture & Art Center, a fifteen minute drive from where I am staying.  I've been here every time I've come to visit my Maryland family, and every time it is a pleasure.

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 In the main gallery, there was a special exhibit, which included this quilt, Cosmos.
 

Here are a couple of details.

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Here's another quilt,

And a sculpture that reminded me of a quilt the first time I saw it.

I'll be home soon.

LAX Kinetic Light Sculpture

I'm home from Los Angeles and my son's wedding. Everything about the trip (Except my Mom's black eye) was perfect.  The night before we flew home, my Mom and I stayed at the Radisson hotel which overlooks the entry to LAX. (LAX is the abbreviation for Los Angeles Airport.)

These are the large towers or "pylons" outside the airport, as seen from our hotel room.

I've flown out of LAX before, and arrived there when it was still dark, so I knew the large towers were lit up at night

What I did not know was that they changed colors.

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all night long.

It was totally and completely cool. I actually moved a chair over to the window so I could watch the towers change colors. They are "active" every night from dusk till dawn.

What a treat! I enjoyed it so much. My Mom said she hadn't seen  me so giddy in a long time.

You can read more about them here.

Annemarie Garden

This is my new best friend, SweetBean. She's Devon's big sister. She, her Mom, little brother and I went to Annemarie Garden, a local sculpture park, yesterday. We had a great time.We saw a lot of sculpture, most on loan from the Hirshhorn Museum. I really liked this one,

Castle of the Eye by Minoru Niizuma, made of Carrara marble. It's bigger than it looks. It's 168" tall, by 36" by 36".That it is reminiscent of a quilt has nothing to do with it.