Art

Tuesday 15 March 2011

How many creatures can you find in this part of Disney's Tree of Life on Discovery Island in the Wild Kingdom?

We drove to Dallas, Texas, to see the Dallas World Aquarium. But the line to get in wound around two sides of the block it was on because school was out in Dallas. Parents had brought their first to fourth grade children. When we saw that we changed our minds and headed for the Dallas Art Museum. But BJ hadn't eaten and suddenly decided that was higher priority. So we dashed in one door of the Art Museum, hurried to the café which charged $24 per meal, and ran out the far side of the museum. What I saw was some large colorful modern art paintings in peeks, and a lot of fancily dressed people looking down their noses at us shabby tourists in a hurry. We finally found a Subway sandwich shop after about six blocks of walking around before BJ completely melted down. So we hopped in the car and started driving. We are sleeping tonight in Wichita Falls, Texas.

On the road today after Dallas we passed a church with aluminum sides on a hill. Between the church and the freeway was a large, dark-colored wooden cross standing on the ground. Between the cross and the freeway was the dark metal silhouette of a cowboy, hat in hand, on one knee, head bowing humbly toward the cross and holding the reins of his silhouette horse standing behind him. I liked it a lot better and it gave me more insights than any of the art I peeked at in the fancy museum. Sometimes there is no accounting for tastes in art.