AFFAIRE IN THE GARDENS ART SHOW - Beverly Hills

The Affaire in the Gardens Art Show is held twice a year.

The Spring 2009 art show is held May 16 and 17 10am to 6pm.

Before the show ...

at the show ...

Artist list (around 300)

Ceramics - Drawings/Prints/Graphics - Glass - Jewelry - Mixed Media - New Media - Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Watercolor

[...] Terry Hansen 156
Michael Kelley 344
Alejandro Martinez-Pena 223
Anthony Messineo 317
Grigor Minasyan 202

Doan Vinh Q 304

Kari Von Wening & Jan Bush 365
Red Wolf 228
Michael Yglesias 136
Marlene Zimmerman 154
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Doan Quoc Vinh

Vinh's phu nhan

Vinh's booth in the show

Grand Canyon and around Grand Canyon

The San Francisco Peaks are a volcanic mountain range located in north central Arizona, United States, just north of Flagstaff. The highest summit in the range, Humphreys Peak, is the highest point in the state of Arizona at 12,633 feet (3,851 m). The San Francisco Peaks (known locally as simply "the Peaks") are the remains of an eroded stratovolcano

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Peaks

The Hopi are American Indians people who primarily live on the 12,635 km² (2,531.773 sq mi) Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi Reservation is entirely surrounded by the much larger Navajo Reservation. The two nations used to share the Navajo-Hopi Joint Use Area. The partition of this area, commonly known as Big Mountain, by Acts of Congress in 1974 and 1996, has resulted in seemingly endless controversy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi

The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided gorge carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park — one of the first national parks in the United States.

Longstanding scientific consensus has been that the canyon was created by the Colorado River over a six million year period. The canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, ranges in width from 4 to 18 miles (6.4 to 29 km) and attains a depth of over a mile (1.83 km) (6000 feet).[1] Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. The "canyon began in the west, followed by another that formed in the east.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon

Around Flagstaff - Aspen Nature Loop Trail- Arizona Snowball

BỘ SƯU TẬP "MẮT"

Điêu khắc gia: Mẹ thiên nhiên

Địa điểm: Aspen Nature Loop Trail- Arizona Snowball

Chất liệu: thân cây ASPEN

Aspen, loại cây có thân trắng nhạt, luôn đắc lực góp phần cân bằng hệ thống sinh thái trong rừng ; là mái ấm cho nhiều loài động - thực vật trong suốt cuộc đời dài 120 tuổi của mình.

Mắt lồi

Mắt lá dăm


Mắt lờ đờ


Mắt xệ

Hai mắt bằng

Hai mắt lệch

Hai mắt và một miệng

Một mắt và một miệng

Một mắt và một miệng và một tai

....

Around Flagstaff - WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT

About 18 miles
from North of Sunset Crater National Monument
(with pine trees and cool weather )
...


... via Loop Road toward Painted Desert
(with bushes and hot atmosphere)
...


it is found a path leading to The Wupatki National Monument


The Wupatki National Monument is a National Monument
located in north-central Arizona, near Flagstaff.


Rich in American Indian ruins,
the Monument is administered by the National Park Service
in close conjunction
with the nearby Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument.

Wupatki was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
on October 15, 1966.

Info. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wupatki_National_Monument

Around Flagstaff - SUNSET CRATER VOLCANO NATIONAL MONUMENT

Born in a serise of eruptions 900 years ago,

Sunset Crater is still the youngest volcano on the Colorado Plateau.

Lava can be found in Lava Flow Trail.

Lava is sharp, brittle, unstable and ... not "handsome" at all :)

Black sands can also be found in this area.

Black sands are exactly like lava :
sharp, brittle, unstable and ... not handsome at all :)

Lichens, in a myriad of forms and colors,
are the result of a symbiotic association between algae and fungi.

Those you see on rocks here neon yellow and soft green,
may have befun forming not long after the lava cooled.

Life and landscape were transformed after the earth cracked open. Probably the branch of this tree shared the same fate - being transformed.

And ... may be more and more branches will be transformed in the future since ... there are still volcanoes around here ...

FLAGSTAFF - ARIZONA

Flagstaff is a gal who likes to break the rules. She's good at mocking - redegining even - that Arizona sterotype of searing temps, sandy deserts and loads of golfing retirees. She's got mountains and winter snow. Heck, there's even skiing.

Older folks? She doesn't know them all too well. She's not opposed; it's just that she runs with a younger, liberal-minded crowd. That would be the college crowd attending Northern Arizona University.

She likes to sip microbrews, chill in coffeehouses, listen to bands (this is the live-music capital of northern Arizona) and dance the night away in throbbing clubs. And she really digs the outdoors, from hiking to mountain biking to skiing.


Sheepherder Thomas Forsyth McMillan first settled in Flagstaff in early 1876, but it was the arrival of the railroad in 1882 that really put the town on the map. Cattle and sheep ranching became economic mainstays, and the surrounding forests formed the basis of small logging industry. [...]

"Lonely Planet - Southwest USA" - page 190

Northern Arizona University

Skiing school in Snowball