Ventura County has nearly 40 museums; maybe I’ll get around to visiting (and sketching at) all of them. The closest one is right here in town, and it’s quite charming, with a mixture of history and contemporary art.
ojai valley museum
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another view
Museum again, from a different vantage point, and on toned paper.
ojai valley museum
I rode my bike into town, just for the joy of it. The museum wasn’t open, but I sat under an orange tree in the garden and did a minimal sketch of the tower. I have to go back Thurs-Sun to see the fiber exhibition they are currently showing.
View from above
I visited my first presidential museum today. It’s an interesting concept, and one that doesn’t arise in Australia — individual prime ministers don‘t create museums to tell the history of their term in the best possible light. I mean, who would pay for them? I doubt many PMs have enough wealthy fans to finance such an institution.
pictographs
I went to the Chumash Indian Museum with the Channel Island Nature Journalers. There is a replica pictograph cave inside — so these are copies of copies of actual Chumash pictographs.
last day
Today we took the kids to the Museum of Brisbane (we all loved the PlayMoves installations), then to SparkLab at the Queensland Museum, then for a swim at South Bank. It was a long, fun day, and we’re all tired.
This has been an absolutely wonderful vacation. I fly home tomorrow ✈️.
big day out
Miss Ten’s chosen birthday treat was a train ride to the Museum and the Gallery of Modern Art, and a picnic at South Bank. A good time was had by all.
Re the sketched reptiles (seen at the museum): Green tree pythons (Morelia viridis) occur in rainforests on Cape York Peninsula, and also in New Guinea and Indonesia. Juveniles are bright yellow but change to emerald green as adults, coinciding with a shift in diet from ground-dwelling skinks to mammals. Primarily arboreal, M. viridis has a particular way of resting in the branches of trees; it loops a coil or two over the branches in a saddle position and places its head in the middle.
The perentie (Varanus giganteus) is Australia’s largest lizard, growing up to 2.5 metres (over 8 feet) long. Perenties are powerful diggers and shelter in extensive, complex burrows when they are not out and about hunting prey. They feed on reptiles (including their own species), small mammals such as bats, young kangaroos & other small marsupials, and rodents. Prey is typically swallowed whole, but if the animal is too large, chunks are ripped off for ease of consumption. Coastal and island individuals may eat a large number of sea turtle eggs and hatchlings, and hide under vehicles to ambush scavenging gulls. Wily!
piñata
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