Adkins Arboretum

Photography exhibit Photographs by 20 members of the Arundel Camera Club will be on display Sunday, Sept. 12, through Oct. 17 at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, 611 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd., Severna Park. Exhibit demonstrates the different techniques used by the photographers. Gallery hours and information: 410-647-2550. Art exhibit Exhibition opening Thursday, Sept. 16 and running through Nov. 12, in the new Art Gallery at Chesapeake Arts Center Gallery, 195 Hammonds Lane, Brooklyn Park, features more than 50 works by the late educator/artist Hal Gomer.

'The Art of Design' Works by AACC architecture, interior design and construction management students are on display through Sept. 9 at the Pascal Center for Performing Arts Gallery, 101 College Parkway in Arnold. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays and 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Fridays. Information: 410-777-2043 or aacc.edu/studentlife. 'Water, Water and Water' An exhibition of large Chinese ink and watercolor paintings on rice paper is on display through Sept. 30 at the Adkins Arboretum's Visitors Center, 12610 Eveland Road near Tuckahoe State Park in Ridgely.

A leafless beech (Fagus) inked across a Monet sunset, frost-glazed stems framed in a January sun. Winter silhouettes, the bones of the landscape, are one of the botanical gifts of the season. "A big American sycamore [Platanus occidentalis] with its white bark and beautiful shape is majestic against a winter sky," notes Sylvan Kaufman, conservation curator at Adkins Arboretum in Ridgely. "Eye-grabbing things like massive white oak [are] fabulous against a winter sky," agrees John Frett, director of the University of Delaware Botanic Garden and professor of landscape horticulture.

THURSDAY-SATURDAY SYMPHONY HOMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS Tour six professionally decorated private homes in historic Hampton, as part of the annual Symphony Homes for the Holidays event, presented by the Baltimore Symphony Associates, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. The tour includes the former home of actress Dorothy Lamour, who moved to the area in 1949. Buy tickets ($20 at the door; $15 in advance) or get a map at Maryland Presbyterian Church, 1105 Providence Road, Towson.