The “Californian” is the official tall ship of the State of California and was built in 1984 at Spanish Landing in San Diego Bay. It was launched at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles and is a replica of the 1847 Revenue Cutter C.W. Lawrence. You can see it at the Maritime Museum in San Diego.
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The B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden is on the grounds of the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA) and features several impressive Rodin sculptures. The Cantors are said to have amassed the world’s largest private collection of Rodin sculptures and have donated several to LACMA.
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This pic presents a couple of the eclectic sculptures found in the Civic Center Sculpture Garden in Newport Beach. The blue sculpture is entitled “Demoiselle” and is by LA native Lieutenant Mustardseed while the “Red Gateway” is by Chris Rench of Hood River, Oregon.
After having lived through numerous tornadoes during our time in the South, it was a new experience to live through our first fire evacuation only 3 months after moving to California. This pic shows our first fire just about to come over one of the peaks closest to our house. Luckily the wind shifted. We were evacuated for 3 days and came back home with a new appreciation of fire danger in our adopted state!
Rhinos are a favorite attraction at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and they love to visit their favorite mud hole for a delightful mud bath.
One of the attractions at La Brea Tar Pits is the Observation Pit which gives visitors an idea of what scientists see before specimens are removed and cleaned up. The Observation Pit reopened in 2014 after being closed for 20 years.
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This bust of James Dean is in front of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on the right (west) side as you face the building. Both the interior and exterior of the Observatory were featured in his most famous movie, 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause, and was the first time a planetarium theater was used in a movie. The work is by artist Kenneth Kendall and a duplicate bust is in the James Dean Memorial Park in the actor’s hometown of Fairmount, Indiana. On a clear day you can take a picture of the statue with the Hollywood sign in the background.
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This statue, which is outside the entrance to the Autry Museum of the America West in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, depicts the Pony Express ride carrying the news of President Abraham Lincoln’s election. The ride began in St. Joseph, Missouri and ended in Sacramento, California, and was the fastest ride in the history of the Pony Express. The artist is Douglas Van Howd.
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This beautiful teahouse was designed by architect Whitney Smith and built in 1966. The distinctive blue roof tiles were imported from Japan. The entire Japanese Garden section of Descanso Gardens (in La Canada Flintridge/Glendale) imparts a real feeling of tranquility .
Here’s a pic of the Carlsbad Flower Fields to add a little color to your day! This shot was taken from the walking paths on Armada Drive near the Museum of Making Music.
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