At the entrance to the zoo, admittance was free!
Mark and I did not have school today so we called up some friends to see if they wanted to go out and have some fun. They were available and they suggested that we go to the Swetsville Zoo out in Timnath, Colorado. Mark is not a big fan of zoo's so I didn't think he would go for it but it turns out that that Swetsville Zoo is actually a sculpture park! We had no idea that there was so much scrap metal in Northern Colorado or that so many people were interested in such sculptures. The man who set up the "zoo", Bill Swet used to be a farmer and in 1985 he began making the sculptures from car parts, farm machinery and scrap metal. There are over 160 exhibits. It all began as a hobby. He made a few creatures and set them out in the yard and people starting stopping to look at them. He built most of the creatures from 1985-1995. Here are some of our favorites.
Bill Swet added this castle facade to their house. What an understandng wife!
He made a huge bug out of an old slug-bug! Clever!
Mark golfing!
This one was dragonflies and bluebirds chasing mosquitoes
Ants marching to the cooler
This last one was labeled #101, "So long Saddam Hussein". He made it during the Gulf War and described it as the secret weaopn to take down Saddam. Too bad it didn't work or we can't use it now somewhere.
1 comment:
Who knew is right! Colorado is definitely an interesting place!
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