ABC Wednesday: I is for Inside

My imagination infers a fairy tale family must live inside the NCMA's Cloud Chamber for Trees and Sky.

In reality this work by British artist Chris Drury is a camera obsura devise that projects the sky and trees onto the interior surfaces.

Above is the ceiling and below is where the ceiling meets the inside walls.

Next is a shot I took inside looking out. By the way, I've been inside the Cloud Chamber for Trees and Sky many times but I've never seen anything projected on the interior surfaces, perhaps because of the light during the time I was  at the NC Museum of Art Park.

 Below you can see the irregular stones on the exterior walls. 

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ABC Wednesday: I is for Imagination

My imagination is frequently sparked by the sky.

The sky can illustrate mood as well as flights of fancy.

The moon illuminates the sky even when captured by a magical basket.

I think there is something other worldly about the moon over the snow covered roof below.

Imagine a white castle floating above the ocean.

Imagine a white elephant pulling up her ears.

Imagine the sky set on fire by a dragon.

I see a sailboat flying in the sky.

 I see a dancer twirling across the sky.

I see an airborne whale.

Not hard to imagine a little romance with a sky like the one below.

I find magic in a colorful sky over snowy rooftops.

I see a snow army taking over the world.

I see a giant butterfly.

I see a giant trying (unsucecssfuly) to hide behind the tree.

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ABC Wednesday: I is for Ivy

I see icy ivy.

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ABC Wednesday: I is for illuminate

The moon illuminates the night.

Isn't it interesting how the moon can shed some illumination even through the clouds?

I think the moon below looks like a lantern or maybe a light in a basket.

The moon below spreads it's illumination like a headlight turned on bright.

Even a slight sliver of the moon can slightly illuminate the trees.

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ABC Wednesday: Interred

Cemeteries are a place where remains are interred.

It's ironic that I find cemeteries interesting because I prefer that my remains be scattered to the wind or composted.

I find it especially sad to see markers for children who died young.

This cemetery has interments from the American Revolutionary war period up through the present.

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ABC Wednesday: I is for Iron

I've always liked wrought iron fences and gates.

This wrought iron fence is in front of the Imperial Building in Durham, NC.

I've read that steel has replaced iron in modern railways but iron is still sometimes found in old tracks. I don't know if the one below is iron or steel but it looks old.

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ABC Wednesday: I is for Iris

I probably won't have any iris in bloom until May. I took these shot in May of last year.

I have a lot of different varieties of iris but I particularly like these dutch iris. They are somewhat irregular and show signs of being past their prime but I cannot deny that so am I.

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ABC Wednesday: I is for Ice

Ice storms can be very beautiful although it's irritating when they damage trees and power lines.

The inferior quality of the first two photographs in this post can be blamed on my first cheap digital camera.

Any inferiority in the rest of the photographs has to be blamed on the photographer since they were taken after I got a better digital camera.

In the winter I try to provide the birds with fresh water. I end up with ice blocks on my deck from the frozen water I empty out.

The birds let me know when they are ready for more water because their bird baths are iced over. Sometimes the ice forms in interesting ways.

I don't think I'd ever seen an upright icicle until I spotted this one last winter.

The creek which feeds into Shelley Lake had ice in early January.

The lake also had ice over most of it although much of it was thin ice so not suitable for ice skating.

The neighborhood children did get to go sledding last winter when ice formed on top of the snow.

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