Painterly Landscape

I'm doing a drive-by blogging here, but just wanted to share this photo I took at the Berkeley Botanical Garden.  I love the wide field of wind-swept grasses paired with the geometric Monkey Puzzle Tree- it's like standing in a painting where the artist swipes mounding swashes of thick paint over the canvas.

Find Them Before They Find You

Hmmm, this sounds fun! Spider hunting in the Botanical Garden- I'm sure there's some real doozies crawling around in there. Anyone going to join me? The spider photo above was taken at Bay Worms during a vermicomposting seminar.