Daily photos from Oklahoma City and the surrounding
metro area
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Downtown park
This park is in downtown OKC. At the very left you can see the bridge that crosses the water and ends up on the streets of downtown. There is so much more to this park that I will probably make this several days worth of pictures. This park is where the annual Arts Festival takes place.
Yes, I went the very first year I got here. I have some pretty good pictures of it that I may post. It's small, but kinda pricey, but the location is incredibly beautiful. And they have really beautiful metal sculpture, full sized, of, well, I have a good picture of a moose with a nodding head. Fun stuff.
Oklahoma is called the Sooner State, because when the state was opened up land was given away not by lottery but by land run, in a "shotgun start" style. At a certain time, all the settlers lined up at the starting line took off at a dead run and ran as fast as their buggies, coaches, buckboards, horses and legs could take them until they could find land that no one had claimed, 160 acres at a time. Unfortunately, not everyone waited for the starting shot and took off Sooner than they were supposed to: hence, the Sooner State. This bronze statue, actually a series of statues depicting the land run, is found along the canal in Bricktown, in downtown Oklahoma City (OKC) and when finished will be the largest bronze statuary in the world.
2 comments:
Very pretty park! Do you go to the Arts Festival?
Yes, I went the very first year I got here. I have some pretty good pictures of it that I may post. It's small, but kinda pricey, but the location is incredibly beautiful. And they have really beautiful metal sculpture, full sized, of, well, I have a good picture of a moose with a nodding head. Fun stuff.
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