I've been working at getting the photos from the Sheltowee Trace Trail labeled. So many of them are just big rocks, that I need to do this soon before I forget why I took some of the pictures.
But I'm only up to day three so far, and I showed you one of the turtles
that the city of Morehead, Kentucky, has adopted as the symbol of their city. But there were a lot of them. And I certainly didn't get pictures of them all. Here are the pictures I did take.
This one may be my favorite, although they all have very interesting decorating. This was in front of the library. I love the books painted on the shell, and the duck hitching a ride and reading is awesome.
I don't think there is a particular name for the painted animals that a city adopts. They are a kind of folk art or street art. Sometimes they are called public art trails. For example, Rochester NY has horses. I have pictures of painted moose from somewhere, but I don't recall where.
This one is more natural looking, but in nice colors.
I also really liked this one. It's not supposed to be a skeleton, just a black and white paint scheme.
Here's another very detailed one, with a garden scene on the shell.
Sometimes simple is very effective. Just red and pink.
The last one we saw was quite a ways out of town at the Cumberland Ranger Station.
I enjoyed seeing these a lot, but only put one in the blog post about the hiking day, so I decided to share them now.
I got my butt in gear and worked on several things today. Put away some more of the garden things.
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