Murals from the Castro District, San Francisco

 Depicting the flight from El Salvador, above and Aztec god. below.

 Female imagery above and male fantasy below.

Beautiful Garden Elements, Santa Cruz Co., California

 Containers above, and well-made compost, below.

 Garden art above and water feature, below.

Finer Textures in Big Basin State Park

 Coastal Redwood leaves, above.  Banana Slug below.

Lichen above and young hiker below, setting out on the Sea to Summit Sky, seen in last shot

Coastal Redwood Life, Death, and Regeneration

Big Basin State Park near Boulder Creek, California

Felton, California Scenes

Flowers in Palo Alto, March 2012

 Palo Alto Mall, above and Elizabeth Gambel Garden below.

Stanford Cantor Museum of Art

Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1967, Sprayed lacquer on aluminum

Fortunato Arriola, Sunset on the Sacramento River, 1869

William Keith, Upper Kern River, 1876

William Keith, Marin Sunset, 1877



Friends of the Wissahickon Volunteer Pathbuilding, March 2012

And this does not even include the guys with big machines!



Worship and Art: Two Houston Examples

Obelisk sculpture outside the Rothko Chapel at the de Menil Collection, above.
www.rothkochapel.org
Inside the non-denominational chapel open to the public, there are huge color panels by artist Mark Rothko.  

Below, images from the Live Oak Quaker Meeting in Houston.   wwww.friendshouston.org
The beautiful new meetinghouse has a "Skyspace" art installation by artist James Turrell, as well as beautiful furniture and setting.

Some Examples of Landscaping with Texas Natives

 These two images are from the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center near Austin.
Wonderful formal gardens, buildings, and native landscapes. www.wildflower.org

 Intermediate between wild and urban, the Hiram Butler Gallery grounds above and a San Antonio suburb below which has retained its native trees.