Staying Green

Recently I spent time in a botanical garden -- ahhhhhhh.  Given the cold weather still in these parts, I relished the time in that warm, humid dome with all sorts of green things.  These two images are simply the leaves of palms and another common house plant.   And indeed, I'm enamored by all the artistic elements so vividly on display, including texture, lines, patterns, relative lightness and darkness and more.  These photos are my favorite way of going green.

"I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful, an endless prospect of magic and wonder."

                                                                                                                  --Ansel Adams