Community Architecture   Columns of Light   Tradebeads   Signal Sequence   Ripple Effects   Solar Clocktower   Ptarmigans   Resting Space   Stone Arcs   Listening Stones   Gather Enough People   Prairie Underground   Kestrel's Way   Details of Nature   Waterline   Miner's Dream   Visions Born by This River   Soft Gold Park Sidewalk   New Work Under Construction			The stone sign reads: "To keep secret and safe on the high mountaintops, the ptarmigan has feathers that turn snow white in winter and rocky red-brown in spring. You can walk past one without knowing it. The bird nests on treeless ground, alpine tundra, its home. It does not fly south, so its wings are not long like the robin's but short, powerful, for quick escapes if discovered. Young can fly in just one to two weeks. Its feet are feathered for warmth. Twigs of willows are its winter food and at night, to sleep, it flies into a soft snowdrift as a blanket leaving no footprints to follow."
	"Ptarmigans"     Vail, Ford Park    Two granite ptarmigans (alpine birds) and granite sign, 1999.   The larger bird is 4 x 9 x 9 feet, made of five river boulders mortised together with tight, curved joints in a technique derived from Inca stone work at Machu Pichu. The smaller ptarmigan in red-brown granite measures 3 x 4 x 2 feet and sits outside the playground, creating a parent-offspring theme and breaks the usual playground boundary. Commissioned by the Town of Vail Art in Public Places Program.