This campground exceeded our expectations in many ways.
We had full hook-up for our trailer. The campsites were spacious and well kept.
There was a laundry room with one washer and one dryer. The dryer didn't work very well, but the clothes came out clean.
I had booked a massage for each of us when I booked the campground. It was wonderful to be able to just walk through the campground to one of the cabins in order to get our massage.
The corrals were a bit disappointing. No cover on any of the corrals. Standard 12' x 12' and many of them were not clean or filled with weeds.
It rained the day after our arrival - pretty much the entire day a steady stream of water. Ari put up our new pop-up shelter to provide some cover for the horses and they definitely appreciated it.
To pass the rainy day, I went into Fargo - about an hour away. I visited the Plains Art Museum. The had these cute gender pins in the gift shop.
They had a gallery with the theme of light.
This piece is meant to act as a response to the classic artwork The End of the Trail.
Fraser first modeled the subject in 1894. He based it on his experience as a boy in the Dakota Territory. His memoirs state, "as a boy, I remembered an old Dakota trapper saying, 'The Indians will someday be pushed into the Pacific Ocean.'" Later he stated "the idea occurred to me of making an Indian which represented his race reaching the end of the trail, at the edge of the Pacific."
The artist is a Native American and his response is that at the end of the trail is "light" and you can't extinguish the light of the indigenous people.
This is a bag decorated with mirrors. What struck me was the informational plate which said the mirrors are used to reflect back evil intentions or envy.
This piece was designed by an aerospace engineer named John Macpherson. He spent 20 years working as an engineer, then switched to art and actually got a degree in visual arts. His art explores applying mathematical and scientific principals to the piece.
This artwork represents the different wavelengths of light and the colors each wavelength can produce.
So, it is a physical representation of a principal of physics.
I am impressed by someone who spent half his life in a very "left-brained" field and now has switched to using his right brain but applying what he learned in his earlier career.
This piece is by an Israeli artist called Yaacov Agam and is entitled French Postage Stamp.
It uses lenticular images which basically changes the way the piece looks depending on the angle.
This is the same method to use to create greeting cards where the image changes.
Lenticular printing is a multi-step process which consists of creating a lenticular image from at least two images, and combining it with a lenticular lens. This process can be used to create various frames of animation (for a motion effect), offsetting the various layers at different increments (for a 3D effect), or simply to show a set of alternative images which may appear to transform into each other. Once the various images are collected, they are flattened into individual, different frame files, and then digitally combined into a single final file in a process called interlacing.
On Thursday, it had dried up enough for us to try to hit the trails.
We rode through a pasture filled with cows.
The trails were flat and well marked, easy to follow.
We really liked this campground - full hook-up, beautiful trails, and an on-site massage.
After a day stuck in a small corral, my horse was amped up and spooked by the cows.
He took off on me. I managed to stay in the saddle, but it was a scary ride.
We are going to be staying at an equestrian center for a couple of days coming up.
I am hoping I can use their arena and their round pen to get my horse back under control and settled down.
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