04-06-2015, 10:34 AM
Had a great time, stayed in a funky VRBO rental, the Atomic Lair: http://www.vrbo.com/611041.
N. Palm Canyon Drive has some cool design/art stores, and we saw some nice work and I got some inspiration. There are some good restaurants and bars and lots of great mid-century architecture (starting with the Visitor's Center in a cool old gas station). For a good drink hit the Bootlegger Tiki (http://www.bootleggertiki.com/), a cozy old-school tiki bar.
The Palm Springs Art Museum is small but has a very nice collection. Plus a great sunken sculpture garden with great trees and plants where they have a 200 million year old fossil of ripples in sand (about five feet tall) and it looks great with the sculpture. There are a couple of Chihuly spheres among barrel cactus and it's a great combo (even though I am pretty tired of most of his work I was quite taken by it). The Native American gallery has some nice pottery and basketry and textiles, but the stunning thing there to me was work by Dan Namigha, a contemporary Hopi artist. They also have a design museum downtown, but the show they had up didn't sound that good to me. I was sorry missed their recent Bauhaus show.
We did not get out to Joshua Tree or Sunnylands, it was more of a lounging vacation. Unfortunately the dog got sick at the end with digestive trouble and wound up dehydrated and spent a night in the animal hospital with an IV. Except for that we had a great time. And she is recovered now.
N. Palm Canyon Drive has some cool design/art stores, and we saw some nice work and I got some inspiration. There are some good restaurants and bars and lots of great mid-century architecture (starting with the Visitor's Center in a cool old gas station). For a good drink hit the Bootlegger Tiki (http://www.bootleggertiki.com/), a cozy old-school tiki bar.
The Palm Springs Art Museum is small but has a very nice collection. Plus a great sunken sculpture garden with great trees and plants where they have a 200 million year old fossil of ripples in sand (about five feet tall) and it looks great with the sculpture. There are a couple of Chihuly spheres among barrel cactus and it's a great combo (even though I am pretty tired of most of his work I was quite taken by it). The Native American gallery has some nice pottery and basketry and textiles, but the stunning thing there to me was work by Dan Namigha, a contemporary Hopi artist. They also have a design museum downtown, but the show they had up didn't sound that good to me. I was sorry missed their recent Bauhaus show.
We did not get out to Joshua Tree or Sunnylands, it was more of a lounging vacation. Unfortunately the dog got sick at the end with digestive trouble and wound up dehydrated and spent a night in the animal hospital with an IV. Except for that we had a great time. And she is recovered now.
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