Adventures 2014 - February: Desert Glass

      I love glass.  Knit glass found at Disneyland.  Blown glass from around the world.  Murano fused glass, Maltese glass, Turkish Cheshembulbul, (I spelled that out phonetically), Egyptian blown glass painted with 24 Karat gold, Egyptian Muski Glass, and most of all anything by artist Dale Chihuly.   Forget Mick Jagger and Justin Timberlake.  Chihuly is my rock god!

Up close detail of Blue Sun Fiori

 

          Currently, Chihuly has an exhibit at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, through  the middle of May 2014.  The pictures were taken with both an ipad and a camera.  No words are needed.

 

 

         If you go, you will need to reserve a time to be in the garden.  Fiori is Italian for flowers.

Blue Sun Fiori (camera)

I love close up shots.  I call them "texture pictures".

Sonoran Boat (camera)

Cattails (camera)

 

 

 Citron and Yellow Fiori (camera)

With Blue Sun Fiori in the background

 Idol (camera - actually, I can't recall the actual name of this, but people were standing around it like it was an idol to be worshipped.)

 

 

Desert Neon (camera)

The Gift shop (camera)

Black Niijima Floats (camera)     My sister would dearly love 3-4 of the purple reeds for her own garden.  The black balls are the floats.

Red Reeds (camera)

Sapphire Star (camera)

With Blue Sun Fiori in the background - it has a space look to it, like a nebula.

Scarlet Asymmetrical Tower (camera)

 

Close up because I see a rattlesnake rattle!

 Summer Sun (camera)

       I also like to call this Burning Bush.

 White Tower and other flowers (camera)  I did not see this until after sunset.  I have to go back.

 

 

 

White Belugas (camera)  A lot of people thought these were egrets.

 

 

 

 

Black and White Reeds (ipad)

 



Olive Reeds (ipad)

Blue Sun Fiori in Daylight (ipad)

 

 

 

 

Yellow Herons (ipad)

 



Cattails (ipad)

Citron and Yellow Fiori (ipad)

With Blue Sun Fiori in background

 Giftshop (ipad



I think I will make this into a poster!



When my sister is allowed near jewelry.

Red Reeds (ipad)