Stanford Statues And Cacti

On Saturday D. and I paid a short visit to the Stanford campus to see the Stanford Mausoleum, the Angel of Grief, (which was vandalized not too long ago), and the Arizona Cactus Garden, and I took some pics before I became too weak and we had to return home.

An Egyptian sphinx guarding the mausoleum.


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Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

On Sunday D. and I decided to go to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San José, which houses the largest exhibition of Ancient Egyptian antiquities in the Western US. Here's some of the pics I took.

On the grounds outside the museum, lions drool into a fountain.


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Sunday's field trip: Villa Montalvo

Sunday D. and I went to look at the gardens and grounds at Villa Montalvo in nearby Saratoga, in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Villa Montalvo was the summer home of James Duval Phelan, mayor of San Francisco and California's first popularly-elected Senator. It was built in 1912 - 1914, and he used ( Read more... )