The answers to the questions are San Francisco, the de Young Museum, and The Chihuly Exhibit. Dale Chihuly is a marvelous artist working mainly in glass. The objects are colorful, diverse, huge in many cases, and magical. To give you good quality pictures, I can't use the animator. so I will show them in a series of blogs. (Etiquette demands, because of our shared history, that I must first caution you that Dale is NOT a pirate.)
This is a picture (of a picture) of Chihuly at work.
Here is a different angle on the piece outside the de Young as you enter.
Here is the first exhibit. Very striking. You just want to pull up a chair and sit and look. No chair was offered so come back for more pictures tomorrow.