As promised, here are some photos from our trip to Connecticut and New York. We went to Storm King, a large outdoor park that has plenty of sculptures. Most of them are very big, one or two stories tall. Others were on a smaller scale. One I found totally fascinating was this sculpture that was constantly in motion. I could have sat and watched it for hours. Very soothing.
Here’s a few other photos; I particularly like the sculpture that looks like it’s floating.
This next one is a bit tricky for me. The guy who thought of the stone fence below wasn’t the person who made it. Does that make him the artist? Or the stone masons who actually made it? I think it’s a bit like Matisse telling Picasso that he has this really cool idea about a cubist sort of painting; could Picasso paint something that Matisse would sign? Or something like that!
What was really cool about Storm King was the landscaping consisted of lots of native plants. Plenty of prairie plants and grasses that really set off the sculptures.
We also went to Mount Race near Sheffield, Massachusetts. We actually walked on part of the Appalachian Trail to get to the summit. Pretty cool! After four hours of hiking through scenery like this:
we were rewarded with this view:
The trail was so clean, with lots of plants and birds to see and hear. The Appalachian Trail is only marked by small white stripes. And I don’t know what I expected, but in some cases, the trail in nothing but a faint suggestion that you need to climb that bunch of rocks. Or a trail no wider than a foot. But it was lots of fun – and I was quite surprised I made it! But compared to the one girl we spoke with who had been hiking since late April with “only” 600 more miles to go, what I did was nothing.
Until next time!
Lower Olentangy Urban Arboretum 