It’s warmed up a little here but it has been rainy all afternoon. I’ve been expecting a technician from the phone company out to check on my DSL line but it is looking like he has stood me up. For the second time too, since he was supposed to be out yesterday and had to reschedule. So I’m still connecting via dial-up.

I mentioned earlier that I was installing a picture gallery. In the future I expect to put up more garden photos than I can on the weblog. I haven’t found the time to load many yet but I have made a start. For beginners I have put up an album of pictures from a recent trip to the Nasher Sculpture Garden.

The Nasher is new and this was our first trip there. No photos are allowed inside and outside you can only take them without flash. We were there in the late afternoon on a sunny day about two weeks ago, so there are some deep shadows visible on some of the pictures. I am still experimenting with a new camera too so I guess you could say that everything about this project is new.

Raymond Nasher was a shopping center developer and some of you may remember Hammering Man from Northpark Mall in Dallas, where it was on display off and on for many years. It is a motorized piece - the arm goes up and down. I believe everything in the museum is from Nasher’s personal collection. Some of the other pieces used to be on the grounds in front of his house.

It’s a nice collection and the building by architect Renzo Piano is really something special too. The only negative about the whole thing is the price of admission. Ten dollars seems a little much.