US Courthouse Plaza

I was having a crappy day on Wednesday, sadly I thought it was Thursday so it only got worse, but I figured a visit to one of my favorite parks might turn things around.

I'd love to tell you who made the bronze castings that are on the mounds in this park, but for some reason there isn't much information available on the web, or at the site itself. I did stumble across an interesting website about the excavation of the site before they built the park and courhouse there, but it doesn't say anything about the building or it's art embellishments anywhere. Upon closer review of the photo of the three creatures carrying a more rotund rolly poly creature (toward the bottom of the post) I see that the name "Tom O." is carved into his underside with the date 1999. So Tom created this little fantasy land, but that's all I can tell you.













The building directly to the left, that sort of looks like a castle, is City Hall. If you're in the mood to weigh yourself, there is a neat old scale inside the arched doorway to your right.



I think what I like most about this park is the domestic nature of the activities the castings are participating in. . . tourism, lawn maintenance, loafing, observing. Idyllic society, lacking the crappy or rowdy elements that are so pervasive elsewhere.