Flashback to our first offices at the Scottsdale Airport. A lot of great things by some incredible and talented people were created in this building!
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Music on my Mind.
Bronze sculpture by Mel Shipley, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. c. 2006. Approx. 20″ tall w/pedestal.
Herb Alpert, Kwakiutl, & Sunnylands
We made a stop at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California this morning to see an exhibition of Herb Alpert’s amazing art – from painting to sculpture – as part of “Reach for the Sky: Tradition + Inspiration”.
The exhibition blends the art by three generations of the Hunt family, members of the Kwakiutl tribe of British Columbia, Canada — brightly-colored totem poles, ceremonial masks, and wall plaques — with Alpert’s contemporary paintings and vertical, abstract bronze sculptures.
For all you kids out there…. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass was a popular band in the 1960s that your parents (and grandparents) liked to listen to. Cameras weren’t allowed into the exhibition, so I snapped this vintage-style photo of the exterior of Sunnylands to help remember the experience.
The 200-acre property was owned by Walter and Leonore Annenberg as their private winter retreat beginning in 1966. Today, the estate is managed by the Annenberg Foundation. It’s a cool place to visit when you’re in the neighborhood.
L’Éternel Printemps. Auguste Rodin
L’Éternel Printemps. c. 1884 Auguste Rodin. Close-up of Eternal Spring, a white marble depiction currently on exhibit at Sunnylands Center, Rancho Mirage, California.
#eternalspring #sunnylands #sunnylandscenter #augusterodin #palmsprings #sculpture
Giraffes chatting over breakfast.
These two chatty giraffes remind me of those days when neighbors would gossip together for hours, separated only by a low fence.
Arabian Oryx
In 1972, only six Arabian Oryx were left in the wild. Thanks to aggressive conservation and cooperation among zoos, governments, and conservation groups across the globe, the number in the wild has grown to over one thousand.
Lycaon pictus
A pack of juvenile African Wild Dogs spotting breakfast in the desert.
It’s a good day to be a #Butterfly
Things Oriental
Close-up of Things Oriental (1985) by Edward Ruscha (1937), currently on display at the Palm Springs Art Museum.
Quiet before the Roar.
Circuit of the Americas. Austin, Texas USA.
View from the main grandstand up into turn one.
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