"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,/And what I assume you shall assume,/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.//I loafe and invite my soul,/I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Natural Architecture
I found this turtle shell in Prospect Park. I think it was a red-eared slider. 7.5 inches long. Cleaned it up with hydrogen peroxide and an old toothbrush. Dorsal view, the carapace.
Dorsal view, the carapace.
Ventral view, the plastron.
Through-view, the cathedral (my term).
4 comments:
You really captured some beautiful vaulting in there. Enough to make me shut up for a while.
It's good to contemplate vaulting, flying arches, spines, the small of the back.
That last one is like a view through Prospect Park's Endale Arch at dawn.
A foggy dawn.
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