Our last day in Phoenix

we visited Old Town Scottsdale.

As in most old town areas there are shops galore. We went into a woman’s wear resale shop

Where many of the dresses had designer labels and all of the price tags were 3 digit numbers.

We also visited a Museum that discussed the history of Scottsdale including a couple of dioramas.

When we left old town Scottsdale we visited a museum of old warplanes. Their prize is a late B-17.

They don’t have a lot of planes but they are all in beautiful shape including this late WWI German fighter.

Today we’re on our way home. We will arrive home Saturday afternoon.

Tom

Art

Yesterday we viewed an astonishing collection of contemporary Western Art. This was assembled by Eddie Basha of the Basha foods company in Phoenix and is exhibited at their corporate headquarters. There are over 3000 pieces in the collection which includes paintings, sculpture, Indian art of many types and cowboy art. As photography is allowed I came away with some images. These few images hopefully will give a sense of the breadth of the collection.

No violence here. The indians and cowboys largely aren’t shooting at each other but going about their day to day lives.

Hopi and Navaho Kasina dolls.

Hopi and Navaho Kasina dolls

Tom

Dolls

Carol and I collect dolls. Carol has a large and varied collection. I have a few Asian Ball Jointed dolls that feature in some of my photography. While visiting here, we went to the doll and toy museum.

Antique Dolls

The Toy and Doll Museum has this early Sasha in their collection. We couldn’t tell if it’s a Trendon or a Goetz Carol has several Sashas so we always like to see if there is one in a museum we visit.

This is a kitchen in one of the dollhouses in the museum.

Finally here is one of my boys I brought along as a travel doll. Here he is out by the pool.

Tom

Cave Creek

is a Western themed collection of shops a bit North of Phoenix/Scottsdale. This sign alerted us that it was time to stop.

and another sign to tell us just where “here” is.

It’s an interesting shopping district with several old buildings and other vendors under canvas. They offered everything from cheesy cowboy hats

to high end art.

Carol looked at some Navaho jewelry but we didn’t find anything we needed badly enough to purchase.

We ate at a restaurant there and were on our way home at sunset.

Tom