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One of my most favorite paintings at our wonderful Birmingham Museum of Art has to be the Bierstadt, Looking Down Yosemite Valley.  It never ceases to take my breath.  For almost two years, it has been on loan to first the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, and then the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  It's home now, and when I looked down this hall and saw it in its rightful place, it took my breath again.

Shhh, No Roaring in the Museum!

Earlier this week, I posted two photographs of my granddaughter Eva riding the carousel in Tuileries in 2007 on Paris Through My Lens. My dear blog friend Shell Sherree created a delightful watercolor of one of the photos, so I posted the orginals.

Imagine my surprise when I did my volunteer work at the Birmingham Museum of Art on Tuesday and found this majestic carousel horse on display. Made by the famous Gustav Dentzel in 1909, it is carved polychromed wood with a glass eye. It is on loan to the museum by Jimmy and Carol Filler. I composed the photo so that you could also enjoy the BMA's magnificent Bierstadt, "Looking Down Yosemite Valley".