This past month has been filled with some nice adventuring. Easter Sunday, Zach and I excused ourselves from the usual obligations and spent the day at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. The zoo is about 1 mile from the house so we walked. I wish I would have taken a picture of Roeding Park because it was madness. It was the most crowded and insanely colorful day at the park I have ever seen. There were families with tents, badminton, barbecues, tables and tables of food, streamers, confetti, balloons, blankets, lawn chairs, bikes, dogs, lots of colorful easter baskets and eggs. Lucky for us none of that was in the zoo.
It was a great afternoon, we spent a lot of time watching the anteaters, the giraffes, the alligator and the fresh water spotted manta rays. oh and the two baby orangutans, we even caught a glimpse of the wolves relaxing and jogging around their hill.
In other news. I'm currently working with this amazing collection of Bakufu Ohno prints from the Fresno Art Museum's permanent collection. They were gifted by the Ikebana Society and apparently are part of a 72 woodcut series in which Bakufu went down in a submarine and saw these fish in person. So my job has been to correct the misnumbering, which involved actually looking for images of the real fish to confirm that the Japanese names matched what was supposed to be in our collection (snoozer) but I had a hard time finding these unnamed guys, and discovered that they are pinecone fish or pineapple fish. Incredible little guys with grumpy faces. I love them, they remind me of serious business men of the sea!
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