The Doeschers

Sunday, July 9, 2017

Fossil Rim Wildlife Center

Friday, July 7th, I took the Doescher and Milette kids on a little day trip. We had so much fun together. Here are a few pictures I managed to take of kids and animals.

The car was fully loaded. For the drive through, we just unbuckled and loaded up the seats. Well, Lennon decided having the third row to himself was just fine.

There were many young animals. I don't know how many Addax calves we counted.

The fallow dear (dama dama, as Katharine prefers to call them by their scientific name) became a favorite of Katharine.

At the half way point of the drive through, we had a nice picnic lunch and I managed to take a group picture of all seven.

mother giraffe and calf

Nice picture of an adult Wildebeest. They too, had four or five calves.

a female Fallow Deer

Scimitar -horned- Oryx. Fossil Rim participated in a reintroduction project for these animals by supplying animals in 2006.

two Fallow deer fawns

Gwen and Lukas

The giraffe encounter was awesome.

A Hartman 's Mountain zebra. Fossil Rim is the only facility in the US that has this kind of zebra.

Keira's favorite animals had cubs, too. Here is a mother cheetah with three cubs hanging out in the shade. Fossil Rim has a cheetah breeding program that has produced 125 cubs since 1986.

Two female Blackbucks. The Blackbucks are near threatened in their native India and Pakistan. Due to the popularity of hunting ranches there, there are now more Blackbuck in Texas than in their native India and Pakistan.

Two European Red Deer.

The view is always. gorgeous. There were many more animals off the paved roads that we were only able to see from the distance. Katharine has a video of our Ostrich encounter which she will have to share with us. Fossil Rim also has an intensive management area that is the home of the more sensitive species such as Coati, Grevy's zebra, Maned Wolf, Mexican Gray Wolf, Red Wolf, and others.

Saturday, July 8, 2017

Iris Van Herpen: Transforming Fashion

Iris van Herpen is a Dutch designer that has 45 exquisite outfits from 15 collections on display at the Dallas Museum of Art until August 20, 2017. She works at the nexus of fashion, design, technology and science. She is known for her willingness to experiment, to explore new fabrics, unconventional materials and to explore and push the boundaries of new technology such as 3D printing. Her work has been worn by such style icons as Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Bjork and has graced the runways of Amsterdam, London and Paris.

Fyi - I did not take pictures of every garment on display.

Mexico 1900-1950 at the Dallas Museum of Art

Here are a few pictures of the special exhibit that is currently still on display at the Dallas Museum of Art. It is a wonderful collection of paintings by Mexican artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Jose Montenegro and others. It explores 50 years of Mexican modern art. Dallas is the first and only stop of this exhibit in the US after having been presented at the Grand Palais, Paris. It features almost 200 works of painting, sculpture, photography, drawings and films that document the country's artistic Renaissance during the first half of the 20th century. The travelling exhibit showcases the work of titans of Mexican Modernism alongside that of lesser-known pioneers.

Katharine, the boys and I have seen this exhibit twice, Erik and the girls went for the first time today. Maybe a catalog of the exhibit needs to be purchased.