Chihuly at the Desert Botanical Garden

While camped outside of Phoenix, we went down to the Desert Botanical Garden in Scottsdale, where they had an exhibition of Chihuly glass sculptures – probably close to a hundred groupings – placed amongst the flora in the garden.

For the unitiated, here's a few things about Chihuly:
1) Dale Chihuly (b. September 20, 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, United States) is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.
2) In 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on automobile accident during which he flew through the windshield.[1][3] His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye. After recovering, he continued to blow glass until he dislocated his shoulder in a 1979 bodysurfing accident.[3] No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to do the work; Chihuly explained the change in a 2006 interview, saying "Once I stepped back, I liked the view" and pointing out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster.[1] Chihuly describes his role as "more chore-
ographer than dancer, more supervisor than participant, more director than actor."[1]
Around Las Vegas (where we are now) Chihuly is known for having created the ceiling display in the Bellagio Casino, shown in the first picture. The rest of the pictures pretty much speak for themselves in presenting shapes and colors that fit in with, but also stand out from, the displays of plants at the Desert Botanical Garden.