Maple's Place: More Desert X and Other Ramblings

We had visitors today. Mr. and Mrs. duck just waddled across the lawn. I sure hope they don't discover the pool!

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Today is Sunday (3/14) and between allergies (the orange blossoms are pungent!) and the time change, I wasn't up for any more art viewing. But I do have these photos from last time.

The artist, Kim, lives in Joshua Tree and has for many years. She wanted to tell the story of homesteaders and brought this real homestead which was someone's home for many years as her art installation.

This would be called a tiny house now. The windows are just high enough that I could not see in. LeeAnne had to take the picture of the interior for me. She's taller. There was a radio playing. I do know if you go to the Desert X 2021 web site, you can see pictures of all of the exhibits.

Below is the Community Center to the right of the homestead house.

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Then it was on to The Passenger. The pathway in was lined with rocks. The sand was like beach sand where you sank down to the tops of your shoes. It was a tough slog!

View of the mountains.

With the mountains at your back, you can see the maze. It almost looks like burlap.

But in a close up, you can see that it's a woven basket weave. The guy wires appeared to be jute covered in see-through plastic.

Here's a look at the line of people waiting to go into the maze. We waited about 15 minutes and had at least 20 minutes if not longer to wait. We didn't wait. I didn't care to go into a maze, particularly since we would be forced to a pace by the people in front of and behind us. We learned today that they were requiring tickets and they had sold out for the day. I don't think there was a price, but it was the number of people that they would allow in.

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View of the mountains and clouds at entrance to Sunnylands where our next art installation reposed.

Sunnylands, the former Annenberg Estate, located in Rancho Mirage, California, is a 200-acre estate currently run by The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, a not-for-profit organization.--Wikipedia

One of my favorite parts of Sunnylands (near the patio of the cafe).

I'm still crazy about barrel cactus.

This exhibit consisted of planters which spelled out words of (good) qualities of women. One of the planters had the plants below, but they were very new and scraggly.

I was very excited that we could tour Sunnylands without an admission.

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I don't remember what word the above letter was from, but I was really disappoionted that they didn't use more mature plants. The words were arranged in a circle in the center of the green across from the museum building.