[TheForge] on and off topic- botanical forms

[lee robbins]

With Bruce Freeman's recommendation of that great garden tool book, and tempering tools i wanted to share this website. there are daily botanical images that usually are geared to interesting morphologies. 

A great book of images is Karl Blossfeldt, Art forms in nature ,( Schirmer art books, New York, ISBN 3-88814-627-5 )very intimate black and white views of blooms and seed pods and repetitive leaves. The plasticity of steel that permits it to have warmth and organic life imbued and frozen is the special appeal to me.
  
the images can be spectacular on this site

http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2009/03/erythrina_coralloides.php

Lee