Monday, post-golf, we went for our semi-annual The Hills Are Visiting So We Have A Good Excuse To Go To The Denver Botanic Gardens jaunt. Which is actually a lot more fun than it sounds, since we enjoy the DBG. It was pretty good timing, with tons of stuff in bloom. There were obligatory visits to Katherine’s brick, and ours, etc.
They’ve also got a very interesting African sculpture show there this summer. Now most sculpture shows of this sort consist of — well, a half-dozen sculptures, clustered in one area (for ease of access and greater impact) and, “Well, that was interesting, on with the other 99% of the place.”
But the Chapungu exhibit is large, impressive, and pervasive. You can’t get away from it. Everywhere you turn, there are these large, African stone sculptures, placed very nicely and thematically about the landscape — amidst trees, surrounded by flowers, rising up out of the grasses. It was actually very nicely done, enough to (unprecedentedly) make me wish it was a permanent installation.
We were going to go to Le Central for dinner, one of our faves, but, alas, they were closed for Memorial Day (or, at least, never answered the phone the three times we tried them for reservations). So we went down to Pappadeaux instead, which was a fine fall-back position. (It’s good that we went to the excellent Pesce Fresco on Thursday night, since they, too, were closed for Memorial Day).