I love the bronze gates and the tree-lined walk to the Mausoleum, especially in light rain when no one is around. As the sun ascends, all the creatures of the garden wake up and tweet, whistle, flutter, scamper, scurry, hunt, and play. Propagating in the Subtropical Garden while it is coming alive early on a Saturday morning is magical. The room is an enchanting space that comes alive with the presence of a very particular beam of light. Sometimes the beam lands on the floor to the left of the brave queen of Palmyra and makes a perfect square. The room in the Scott Galleries that holds Harriet Hosmer's huge marble Zenobia in Chains is a spare, tall, green room with a square cut out of the upper southwest corner, so that a beam of light is almost always shining down and moving across the floor. The California Garden's Eriogonum parvifolium (Sea cliff buckwheat), because it reminds me of Santa Barbara. I love taking my extended family and friends, especially those visiting from my father's country, Ecuador, to see Frederic Edwin Church's painting Chimborazo. They always bring a smile to my face and make me feel lucky to work in such a beautiful place. Love to watch the bunnies cross the Education and Visitor Center allée as I head home for the day. If you look carefully at it, you can see a coyote baying at the moon. It's a gorgeous mural on the right side of the gallery, just as you walk in. I love the depiction of the night sky in the " Beautiful Science" exhibition. The vibrant and magnificent Sam Francis painting Free Floating Clouds in the Scott Galleries. It gives me the same mystical feeling as a Rothko color painting.īoth the Chinese Garden and Bonsai Court, for the way they reflect beauty and culture. In Becoming America I stand in front of the Amish Bar Pattern Quilt and marvel at its beauty. The orchids are so beautiful, as are the carnivorous plants. The Conservatory, because its greenhouse plants replicate a rainforest. I have been to that spot, midway up the back stairs, countless times, and there is so much to see in that window with figures, words, and colors that are always new and thrilling. It's below you, above you, and most powerfully, right in front of you, glowing. If I close my eyes I can hear the waves and seagulls as if I were there.Įdward Burne-Jones's towering stained glass window from a Lancashire chapel in the Huntington Art Gallery overwhelms. ![]() I am transfixed by the beauty and stillness that this artwork evokes. I grew up on the East Coast and spent many years going to Cape Cod with my family and friends. My favorite painting is Edward Hopper's The Long Leg. ![]() I love the golden barrel cacti in the Desert Garden they are especially beautiful in the late afternoon when the setting sun lights up their golden spines.
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