Kelly visits the Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree. Purifoy's outdoor assemblages include found items from piles of discarded clutter spread out across this dry landscape. Where others saw junk, Noah saw poetry. An old friend of Noah's, Pat Brunty, walks the grounds with Kelly while sharing personal stories.

Her next stop is Pioneertown, a quirky desert community with a Main Street built as an 1880s Old West motion picture set. She spends time with Gwen Barker and Eric Dean, co-owners of Rim Rock Ranch, to talk about the desert and preservation, and rides some horses.

Show Notes:

• Visit the Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum
• Help support the Noah Purifoy Foundation.
• Read more about Noah Purifoy in Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA) and in the Guardian.
• Stay at the Rimrock Ranch
• Shop Rimrock Ranch Merch

Kelly tours Lotusland with the Executive Director, Rebecca Anderson, to learn more about the eccentric Polish-American opera singer, horticulturist, and fashionista, Ganna Walska, who transformed 37-acres in Montecito, into a world-renowned botanical garden. Lotusland features a wide variety of rare and exotic plants from around the world and is known for its unique and fanciful garden designs.

Show Notes:

• Visit Lotusland.
• Read more about Ganna Walska in The New York Times
• Make a Donation to Lotusland
• Follow Lotusland on Instagram.
• Read Lotusland: An Ecological Experiment That Worked
• Volunteer in various areas at Lotusland.
• The Remarkable Jewelry Collection of Madame Ganna Walska at Sotheby's
• Read Ganna Walska's Autobiography, Always Room at the Top
• Shop more books on Lotusland