Blake Williford of GA Tech standing in front of his body of work studying 'nature's best jumpers' — frogs This was the second year we were asked to participate in Lane Duncan and Jeannette Yen's 'Drawing in Nature' class at GA Tech. So far, each year the class came to the Garden for inspiration on aspects of nature that would be fun and interesting to explore artistically. Overall, I have been incredibly impressed with the students. Not only their final projects and the amount of work that has clearly been invested — but by the specific aspects the students have chosen to explore. The relationship between leaves, shadows and water, for example — or the persistence of urban plants through cracks in a sidewalk. Now, I may be biased, but the student that I was most impressed with is featured here in this article — Blake Williford, and his project exploring the structure of frogs as related to locomotion. This photo does not do his art justice. These a...