A Green Canvas
Posted on | October 21, 2009 | No Comments
Yesterday the weather was warm enough for me to walk the mile from the museum where I work to Union Station. Almost every day I pass by the sculpture garden at the National Gallery of Art. Even through I am an artist and was an art history undergraduate, it is not the artwork in the garden that draws my eye, so much as the garden itself. The organic forms of the vine twisting around the solid fence posts. The fact that each winter they cut these vine back to the central posts, and each summer the vines grow back in new, strange ways. The shade the leaves provide in the hot summer on my walk to catch the trains home. The variety of green.
One of the things I love most about this city is the greenspace — parks, gardens, walking paths through wooded areas next to streams. Only 30 minutes away, you can see the Great Falls of the Potomac River, which always revives and inspires me. I just realized in typing this that it has been over a year since I’ve visited Great Falls. Hmmmm, perhaps I should go after Samhain but before it gets too cold.
Great Falls Rapids, originally uploaded by Dabe.
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