Thanks to reader Guy Fawkes (is it really you, Guy?) for pointing out another playground by Bob Cassily, founder of the amazing
St. Louis City Museum, consisting of gigantic sculptures of turtles.
I always like it when playground animals represent real local species...Turtle Park has "a snapping turtle, a soft-shelled turtle, a red-eared slider, three box turtles and a stinkpot along with a snake that is curled to form an area for sitting and a serpent taking a bite out of the Highway 40 overpass. Seven large eggs, three with emerging turtles, are used to make a sitting area."
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Wow! I need to do a search on this one because I want to see more. thanks!
ReplyDeleteIn a park space bordered by a city street and an interstate, it has a noisy, windy, almost vertiginous quality. It is interesting to watch highway traffic from atop a turtle.
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Hello, I hope you don't mind, I used one of your pictures on my blog about turtle park - view it here:
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I posted a photo credit link back to your blog.