Summer afternoons in Florida are a nice time to visit museums, tour a garden, swim in the pool or the Gulf, have a leisurely lunch and take a few photos along the way. The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg and the Ringling Museum in Sarasota both make fun day trips.

The Dali Museum glass wall/ceiling brings light into the core of the museum. The painting galleries surround the core with walls separating the strong natural light from the controlled gallery lighting.

Gordon Huether is a sculptor and painter with a studio and gallery in Napa, California which I visited last summer. The hot colors of the glass inside the cool metal express the tropical heat with a sense of contemporary sophistication of a city that welcomes new art forms.

This maiden has stood so long in Mabel Ringling’s rose garden that she has begun to grow lichens on her fair complexion.