@QMS
That Chihuly sculpture is pretty wild. I just wish it was hanging somewhere that had better light.
Thanks for the smiling owl. I heard a Great Horned owl hooting away nearby the other night. Unfortunately it was to dark to spot where it was.

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A fantastic glimpse of your museum's treasures.
The writhing glass sculpture and jaguar mask are both great.

Thank you for sharing your collection!

@janis b
on display at both the museums makes visiting them well worth the price of admission.

That's quite a diversity of art at the museum. I especially enjoyed the Jaguar head and Nick Cave's sculpture. I think I enjoyed the music most of all. Thank you.

@janis b
Nice mix of patterns in the sand dune shot. Would those be camel footprints in the sand?

I hope you're enjoying the beginning of Spring, with its growing light and freshness.

Be well

@dystopian
Thanks for bringing us the Red-throated Pipit. I haven't been down Dairymart Rd. way in a while. The south bay has grown a lot over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if the sod farms are gone and residential homes are in their place.

Hi all,

Let's see if I can do this...

I have to reshoot this or find the original slide. This is a poor photo of an 8 x 10 on a all here, which is thirty years old and faded. This is a couple gens lost from original. Which was actually published in American Birds. The journal of record for No. Am. ornithology. Orig slide much brigh5er, more colorful, and sharper of course... When a super mega rarity, it does not matter how crap your photo is. Just that it proves it.

Generally, it is a LBJ. A little brown job. The heavily and boldly streaked back, combined with heavily streaked underparts, pink legs, white out tail feathers, heavy malar mark all combine to prove a first fall immature Red-throated Pipit. Note the thin longer bill that is not conical like a sparrow. This was the second ever Los Angeles Co. record, Sept. 28, 1991. I called it out unseen when it belted out its explosive SPEEEEZZZ call as it flew over a couple hundred feet up. Amazingly it closed its wings plummeting to earth a hundred yards from my buddy and I. They are Siberian breeders. Some years small numbers come down the wrong side of the Pacific coast in fall. The sod farms off Dairymart Rd. in the Tijuana River Valley on the border is the best place to get lucky the years they show up.

happy trails all!

@soryang
I wonder if Bourdelle had Rhodin in mind when he sculpted the Hercules piece. I really like the Guanyin piece. I'm amazed at how old it is and the amount of detail the artist was able to achieve with the tools available in the 12th century.

Brings back some fond memories from younger days.

Never saw Bourdelle's work before, very nice. Reminds me of Rhodin. Liked the Guanyin and Jaguar as well. When I see a Chihuly, I always think of my old glass artist friend, and the aspiring artists I knew in school, it was a gift. I know how hard it must be to be an artist. The path not taken.

@on the cusp
Great museum indeed. The museum or art is just one of three great art museums in Balboa park.

Great museum!
Thanks, sp!