The Wine Country Optics Expo was hosted by Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma CA. If you have never visited Cornerstone, it is a complex of high-end shops, mostly art and artifacts, a trendy cafe, a couple of vineyard tasting rooms, and a world-class sculpture garden. Some of the larger pieces are really landscape sculpture, bordering on instalation art. They are both interesting and strangely beautiful…perhaps a bit over the top for your average residential garden, no matter how grand, but certainly grand conceptions, wonderfully realized.

This instalation, titled Garden Play,  is by Topher Delaney. In the early morning October light I found it irresistible. Samsung Smart Camera WB800F in Rich Tone mode. Processed in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014.