Maymont park

It hit me, as I walked through Maymont Park last week, that I am always taking people there in the winter. So for the edification of those of you who have seen it in the drab cold days of winter, here are a few shots with flowers, grass, and running water in the fountains.

Above is a shot of the fountain and stairs in the Italian Garden; below is a shot of the waterfall in the Japanese garden.


The bears were out wrasslin'





It was so hot when I was there. I was mostly taking pictures of fences going up hills because--as part of my resolution to celebrate the end of grad school by spending the summer doing things I have always wanted to do, I decided to paint a big picture of crows standing in front of a fence on a hill.
Now everyone who knows me knows I can't draw any better than I can sing, but lack of skill notwithstanding, this is fun.
Here's the angle I started with


and here's the first stages of the painting


which has really kinda fallen apart since I began to add the crows, but it was off to a nice start, wasn't it?