Sculpture Seen While Walking The Dr. Tom Jones Trail Around Windsor Lake, Part 2

 

                                                     Plein Air Bear by Colette Pitcher

   Colette Pitcher is a multi talented artist who can paint and sculpt with the best of them. I first discovered her work when I caught sight of her award-winning bronze "Bee My Honey" in a park just off Washington Ave in Northglenn.

   Her piece featured on the artwalk along the Dr. Tom Jones Trail at Windsor Lake is entertainingly fanciful, and can be purchased for $30,000.00. 

Good Idea For A Comedy Sketch Scene...50 Years Too Late

   This afternoon I overheard someone tell someone that they needed to see a little more hustle from them.

   Which sparked a memory, and then an idea for what could have been a funny scene in a movie...maybe 50 years ago.

   Here is the scene that raced through my mind; Camera pans a baseball diamond that is full of baseball players engaged in a lot of rather lackadaisical activity - it is Spring Training, so the rust of a long off-season is evident as players take swings at cans of corn and play a lot of sloppy pepper.

   Close up on the manager as he grimaces at the sight of his players dragging their collective feet and generally looking more like half-drunk amatuer softball players than a top-tier professional baseball team.  

   The manager cups his hands to his mouth and shouts loudly: "C'mon you chowderheads, cut the crap, I want to see a lot more hustle out there, pronto!"

   The camera cuts to the field immediately as Van McCoy's 1975 dance hit The Hustle begins to blare. All of the players start a perfectly choreographed line dance version of a 6 step hustle.

   The manager is shown burying his face in his hands.

  See, back in '77, '78, that would have been funny as all get out. Nowadays, not so much.

Sculpture Seen While Walking The Dr. Tom Jones Trail Around Windsor Lake, Part 1

                                                           Transformation by Jodie Bliss
 

   The immensely talented Jodie Bliss is a Monument, Colorado based Blacksmith and fabricator who forges metal sculptures using structural steel, stainless steel, copper, brass, and  bronze.

   Her creations can be seen in numerous locales, from the Colorado Springs airport (Muse of Music, which also incorporates glass, and Blossoming), to Salina, Kansas (Phoenix Rising), and Manitou Springs (Spirit of Manitou), and of course at her studio in Monument.

   The piece in the above photograph, entitled Transformation, is located along the Dr. Tom Jones trail which skirts around Windsor Lake, in Windsor, Colorado.

   It's a beautiful sculpture, and if you fall in love with it you can take it home as it is available for purchase ($19,500.00).

   

The Candle Burns With Without Pause

 

   Shine, shine as brightly as you can

                                      Time seems to crawl when you're in your prime

               But that's only due to you aching for a future that has yet to happen

                               Each and everyday you grow closer to the end

                                               An end that happens whenever it chooses to

   You have no say in the matter

                           It happens when it happens

                                              You can waste the time you're allotted 

                       Complaining, worrying, whining, regretting, knotted

                                       Or you can live like you mean it

   Unafraid, joyful and in the moment

                                          For the moment is all you really have

 

A Specific And Well Defined Though Notoriously Difficult To Comprehend Statement

 

Delicious Irony Found On A Sunday Morning Stroll Through The Neighborhood

   Picked up a copy of "The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work" by John M. Gottman (PhD) at a divorce sale this weekend. 

   Not because I'm in a struggling marriage (I'm not married) or am planning to get married (I'm not planning to get married), but because I'm curious as to what a twice-divorced (three-times married - third time must be the charm) psychologist (and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington) has to write about keeping the magic in a marriage.

   Plus, I couldn't resist the irony of purchasing such a book at a divorce sale. 

Sculptures Seen At Fickel Park In Berthoud, Colorado

   Stopped in the small (but growing - the population has doubled in the last 10 years or so) town of Berthoud, Colorado and noticed that there was a sculpture park located between Mountain Ave and Massachusetts Ave, between 6th and 7th streets.

   Except it's not designated a sculpture park as such, it's Fickel park, and it has a few sculptures placed in it (on the Mountain Ave side of the park).

   I took pictures of all the sculptures and they are posted here:

Colorful Glass Mosaic Piece on Pedestal, No Attribution Found 

                                          Harley's Dream, Cast Bronze Sculpture by Helen Violet

                                       Walrus & Calf, Cast Bronze Sculpture by Dellores Shelledy

                                  Old Gold Tooth, Cast Bronze Sculpture by R.B. "Doc" Fickel

                                    Mt Mariah, Cast Bronze Sculpture by R.B. "Doc" Fickel

                                           Panzon, Cast Bronze Sculpture by Dan Ostermiller

                                              Carved Tree Stump, No Attribution Found