Twilight at the Huntington | Dancing with Phoebe
Huntington Gardens
December 29, 2013
Yesterday to honor #dancingwithphoebe, I went to the Huntington Gardens to play with the fairies.
These are the photos I captured and this is the video I made: instagram.com/p/ihnnLVGSQm/
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost.
This is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau
With flowers and with women,
with absinthe and with fire,
we can divert ourselves a little,
acting our parts in the play.
Absinthe drunk on a winter evening,
lights up in green the smoky soul;
and the flowers on the darling one
exude perfume before the bright fire.
Charles Cros, 1842 – 1888
This is the color version of Garden Gnomes & Faerie Flowers. The setting sun casts a warm glow on cotton candy petals which also serve as fair rides for the faerie folk.
This flower is smaller than my thumb nail, maybe even smaller than my pinkie nail! I was watering Herman* one day and the beautiful succulent green plant next to him was flowering. I had no idea it springs flowers. I don’t know what plant it is, but it’s Micki’s. And so I captured the beauty of it for Micki, because she was out that day, and named it after her.
*Herman is my Peace Lily
