Public art encompasses any form of art you see in a public place, large or small, statues, murals, graffiti, gardens, parks, etc. The art should be visible from streets, sidewalks, or outdoor public places. Let your imagination and photographic eye show us diverse samples all over the world.
Last week for PPAC #21, Cee had a marvelous response from all of you. I want to say thank you to each of you for joining along in our challenge. Here are the featured bloggers for this week. Their posts really grabbed my attention. They are all worthy of a second or third look.
FEATURED BLOGGERS
| An Embarrassment of Riches |
| Robert’s Snap Spot |
| Travel with me |
| And Miles to Go Before I Sleep… |
| Light Words |
My Choices for PPAC #22
One of our favorite places to visit is the California Central Coast, and we particularly love Avila Beach. It used to be a sleepy little town until an oil spill forced the entire beach to shut down for cleaning. This process took years, and the town as we knew it disappeared and a new gentrified beach town appeared in its place.
Avila Beach, CA
It’s still a wonderful place, with a micro-climate that is warmer and more protected than any other on the Central California Coast. We happened to be there one day to watch an artist designing his sculptures.
He uses simple tools, a straw, and buckets of water.
The artist’s other sculpture supervised his efforts on the next creation.
The artist must not have worked well under so much scrutiny and he left on a break. The pup adoringly awaited his master’s return.
Sculpterra Winery
Even though I have written about this winery long before we hosted PPAC, I thought they rated sharing again, only cropped and straightened. It was a little out of the way for us as we traveled home, but well worth the detour.
They had a taco truck set up outside for humans who got hungry.
Now it’s your turn.
Take us for a spin around your world to see the public art you love.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
74 responses to “PPAC #22: Wineries and Sand Castles”
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You’ve given us some real delights this week, Marsha
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Thanks, Debbie. ๐
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Hi Marsha,
Here is my entry for this week. Hope you like it ๐
https://ceenphotography.com/2021/11/22/ppac-23-bridges/
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Here is Blue Heron’s entry.
https://babsjeheron.wordpress.com/2021/11/16/beautiful-great-blue-heron-fledgling-surprise/
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I think she sent this to both of us. It’s quite a story.
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Awesome post, Woolly! ๐
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Hi Marsha
Your selections of sandcastles is a delight. What public art can be more fun than that! Those sculptures at the Sculpterra Winery are incredible, especially the panther on the prowl.
Hereโs my offering that includes public art:
https://babsjeheron.wordpress.com/2021/11/16/beautiful-great-blue-heron-fledgling-surprise/
Best, Babsje
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Wonderful post, Babsje. ๐
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Here is Yvette’s entry from Priorhouse blog for the week.
https://priorhouse.blog/2021/11/15/street-art-from-florida/
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Thanks, Cee.
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I’m so excited to share this with you: last weekend I was in Carmel. Robinson Jeffers’ Tor House is finally offering tours again!
https://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2021/11/15/photographing-public-art-challenge-ppac-13-the-robinson-jeffers-tor-house-and-hawk-tower-carmel-by-the-sea/
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wow Marsha, the sculptures are amazing and everyone did such a great job! I love your captions on your work and the prowler was amazing.
LOVE Avila Beach.. such a gift! ๐๐๐
Nice job my friend!๐
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Thanks, Cindy. Welcome back!
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Here is my entry for the week. I hope you like my murals.
https://ceenphotography.com/2021/11/15/ppac-22-murals-in-silverton-oregon/
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Stunning art pieces Marsha! Difficult to choose a favourite!
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Thanks, Aletta. Sculpterra is a fun place to visit. The beach carries no such guarantees for seeing artwork, but I love it! ๐
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The beach artwork is just amazing
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Thanks, Aletta!โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
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Hi Marsha. Check out this sand castle under the sand: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2020/07/30/sand-castles-under-the-sand/
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The metal sculptures are fantastic!
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Thanks, Susan. The pictures can’t do them justice. They are amazing.
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You show us truly stunning art this week. The tiger is especially amazing.
After my lengthy series I’m in need some waving and ironing but already have some ideas for the future.
https://manjameximexcessive6.wordpress.com/2021/11/14/pic-and-a-word-289-ppac-the-wave-of-irony/
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I like this one! ๐
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I’m glad, Marsha!
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Fabulous! ๐
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Some great sculptures. Here’s my entry
https://linsdoodles.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/ppac-22/
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Love the holy elephant
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It does look like you cup of tea.
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Wow, Marsha ๐ฒ I thought the beach sculptures were fantastic (which they are), but the sculptures at the winery are amazing ๐ I’ve got a big cat in mine as well: https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2021/11/13/big-cat-in-the-city-ppac-22/
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Thanks for joining in this week, Jez. ๐
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[…] Hi all ๐ My entry for the Marsha & Cee’s Photographing Public Art Challenge, hosted this week by Marsha. […]
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The sand sculpture is brilliant!
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Wonderful post. Two completely different sections but both really interesting and there was not one sculpture I didn’t like.
Here is mine:
https://photographias.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/ppac-glasgow-6/
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Awesome mural, Sofia. ๐
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I LOVE Avila Beach! I was there in June. Still so pretty. But, yes, gentrified.
One day I will catch up. In the meantime: https://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/photographing-public-art-challenge-ppac-12-gardens-art/
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I am going back for a couple of days in January. Winter is the best time to go, I think. The valley is foggy and cold. Prescott is snowy and cold. Time to go to the beach! I’m so excited! ๐
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Where to begin?! What a great collection.
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Awwww, thanks, Elke. That’s how we felt when we walked through the winery – and of course, who doesn’t love a sweet sand dog?
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The sculptures brought me back to memories when my kids and I frequented sand sculpture exhibits when they were little. And the winery sculptures are cool! Here is mine https://mywanderings.travel.blog/2021/11/13/seats-public-art/
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It would be cool to see a collection of sand sculptures. Where did you find those? Are they still putting them on? How fun! I think it would be fun to go to an ice sculpture exhibit.
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We had it every year here in some of the bay areas in Melbourne. But I donโt go to it anymore once the kids have grown up. Maybe I will share them one day when I find it.
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Join my world! Share when I find it! ๐
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WOW Marsha, these are fantastic photos. I love to see sand sculptures ๐
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Those were fun. We hit it just right!
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This brought back happy memories. We stopped at Avila Beach purely by chance on the first night of our first ever US road trip. This was back in 1991 and we really liked it there ๐
Those sculptures at the winery are excellent. Of course the elephant is my favourite and I also like the lioness (?) and cat!
And thank you for featuring me ๐ This week I have some very large snails: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/gallery-giant-snails-invading-riga/
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You always bring us a surprise treat!
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We often stay in Paso Robles on our way up or down the coast but we’ve never visited Sculpterra before. That will definitely change the next time we are in the area. Thanks for the tip!
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Paso is nice and Sculpterra isn’t too far from there. You take 46, I think till you get there. It’s wonderful, usually sunny and about 5-10 degrees warmer than Pismo and about 30 degrees cooler than Paso.
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Hi Marsha, you have shared some lovely pictures of sculptures.
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Thanks, Roberta! ๐
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Ahhh, thank you, Marsha, now it’s really my blog among the featured ones. ๐ Thank you for that! I love your post, all of it, the artist’s gentle expression and the extremely well done beastie sculptures. I might be posting later than usual but I will find something sooner or later.
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Wow, those are all just wonderful ๐
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