One of the area favorites is
The Cafe at Shields Date Garden
We had a nice lunch with pleasant music.
Following lunch we get to see the whole gospel story in statues.
THE WALK
They have created a lovely garden walk that features 14 scenes and 23 sculptures that feature Christ's life.
Jesus selects his disciples
(He calls them out of the world:
note the location of the gas station and shopping center😀)
Jesus loves the children
Jesus is baptized
Healing of the paralytic
Triumphal Entry
One week later they crucified him.
His death and resurrection gives us our Blessed Hope.
Just follow Him!
So far we have seen so few flowers, but they are just starting to bloom.
Coachella Valley Historical Museum
The Mexican pottery was certainly the most colorful part of the museum.
A Mexican Tree of Life is a hand coiled pottery sculpture depicting the biblical
Tree of Life
This one looks like a
Family Circus
Gotta be the ugliest I've seen
and pretty creepy.
A DESERT SUBMARINE
Built in the 1920's as a sleeping room.
The cooling process was having water trickle down over burlap covered metal walls. With evaporation the interior was cooled.
This process led to the evaporative cooler still popular today.
In the late 1950's there were still a hundred or more of these at the
Southern Pacific Railroad yards as sleeping rooms for railroad crews.
Thats all for now.
See you all soon!
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