Andrea Zuill’s Blog

                  Sculpture by Ricardo Breceda

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     Today my Husband and I took a drive to the Desert.  T he Flowers are blooming now, but what caught our eye where some large sculptures that had been plopped down in the middle of this stark landscape.   These sculptures are in  Borrego Springs, CA.  I was able to check them out on the internet and  found that they where made by an artist named Ricardo Breceda.  The sculptures are spread out in a area called Galleta Meadow Estates , http://www.galletameadows.com/ .

      Our dog found these creatures to be very suspicious.   He likes to growl at larges animals from the safety of our car.  Cows, horses, deer and turkeys don’t have a clue to the rage that is lurking in our car as we drive by.  As we drove down the dirt road to get a close up of the sculptures we heard a  subtle growl and  mild phoofing (phoofing is like barking, but softer and starts with a “F” sound) coming from the back seat.  Once parked, I told my furry son he could get out of the car.  He immediately ran over to the smallest mammoth with hackles up and in full phoofing mode.  You can see in the image above that my boy is trying to smell the butt of this animal.

  Our boy continued to circle this horrible beast until he was satisfied that the Mammoth wasn’t carrying a knife or gun.

If your scared, you can always dig.  This is the basic principle our dog lives by.  And, just so you know, we don’t have any holes in our yard.  He saves his digging for exploration time and please don’t let that creepy animal eat me time.

                Sculpture by Ricardo Breceda

 This view helps to demonstrate the odd sight  we found in the desert.

There are many more sculptures located at Galleta Meadows Estate.  It’s great to see them at their website,  http://www.galletameadows.com/ ,  but  photo’s can’t convey the feelings of seeing these animals up close.