Photo Credit: Mark Lentz. Viewpoint: Enid A. Haupt Conservatory within New York Botanical Gardens, within the Bronx; 12/29/01 5PM.
Notes (Roving Rube): The caption lists some of the construction materials for the 80 buildings included in the Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Gardens.
Seen here are, clockwise from lower left, 1) the Conservatory itself; 2) bridges connecting Manhattan and the Bronx; 3) Wave Hill house, and 4) the Guggenheim (with black locust shelf fungus).
The show is produced in collaboration with Applied Imagination of Alexandria, Kentucky headed by Paul G. Busse, a noted landscape architect, set designer, and garden railroad advocate.
Mr. Busse's group also has designed other "garden railroad" layouts for Longwood Gardens and other institutions.
Besides the inventive building materials, the Rube likes the size of the trains (G scale) and the "garden" layout dwarf shrubs and flowers which one imagines at being giant-sized next to the houses.