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This neighborhood playground was once a landing strip for Lowry Air Force base. Artscapes saw this as an opportunity to lead the imaginations of the children who now inhabit this park into the sky. At the swingset, six kinetic sculptures get progressively taller, mimicing the arc of the "flying" swinger. Across the park, eight kite shaped poems playfully teach visitors some facts about all different types of things that take to the air, from plants to sattelites. There was a dandelion whose seed went a flyin' ♦ It coasted on the wind without even tryin' It flew for two minutes and two hundred feet ♦ before it took a seat in a field of wheat. A young honeybee was very determined ♦ to fly 'round the whole world as it was turnin' She never gave up and this will amaze you, ♦ it took her two hundred and sixty two days, phew! The barheaded goose is not afraid of heights ♦ It goes thirty thousand feet high on it's flights. I know it sounds crazy, but i do declare ♦ that's twice as high as those mountains right there! Squirrels are nuts, squirrels are cute ♦ Flying squirrels have thier own parachutes They chitter and chatter with racket infernal ♦ They keep you up nights because they're nocturnal! Wilber and Orville, the brothers Wright ♦ had the crazy idea that man could take flight. They worked very hard to achieve the feat ♦ of flying twelve seconds and one hundred twenty feet. If old Charlie Lindberg had a strange itch ♦ and decided his mission he would switch If around the whole world he did fly ♦ he'd spend ten whole days up in the sky! Now seven-forty-sevens usually cruise ♦ thirty thousand feet in the air Covering those feet takes a lot of shoes ♦ Fifteen thousand pair! In outerspace too we've got some things flyin' ♦ You might spot one glide by as you look for Orion They're up there to insure that you get your data right ♦ I'm reffering of course to our wonderful sattelites! |
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