Friday was my day off, so Sweetie and I dropped the kid off at school, had breakfast and then headed to Tulsa’s fabulous Philbrook Museum. We saw the most valuable items ever found on the show Antiques Roadshow. These five rhinoceros horn cups were appraised for $1.3 million when the show came to Tulsa on July 23. If you have any rhinoceros horn cups in the attic I’d go find them if I were you, they are worth some serious money!
We also saw some weeds. Except don’t touch, they are not weeds. This is art. By Tony Matelli. Click on the link to see his web site. He is seriously not from Oklahoma. Very talented though.
And then to the gardens. They are beautiful.
We saw my old friend, the car bumper rhino.
And what Sweetie told me was Gaillardia, I said “Whoa, get back!!” Isn’t Gaillardia a serious tropical disease? Like coral snakes though, deadly but pretty.
Then we left Philbrook and went to the Linnaeus teaching gardens. There we found some Gazania. Beautiful.
At the entrance we saw the statue of Linnaeus. Wait, what does he have in his right hand?
Hey, the deadly Gaillardia. I wonder if that is what he died of?
And look at the book in his left hand, again.
And on a plaque behind him.
Supposed Gaillardia thrives in hot weather. It should be the kudzu of Oklahoma in that case. Turns out, Gaillardia Pulchella is Oklahoma’s State Flower. It is otherwise known as Indian Paintbrush.
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