spring garden

 

Gateway Plaza Park is awash in riotous color but not with the bloom of spring flowers -- it's pinwheels.  Sidewalks are lined with hundreds of the colorful objects with the slogan "Spin into Action" to promote April as Child Abuse Awareness Month.  Spring breezes turn the pinwheels and one can note the "variable West Texas winds" as the center row spins while other rows are stationary.  Never heard of Gateway Plaza Park?  It is supposedly is the entrance to downtown but recent razing of the former Halsey Drug Store on the north side of Broadway and the buildings on the south corner, the "gateway" is fairly stark.  Gateway Plaza Park is also home of the 1970 Lubbock Tornado Memorial inscribed with the names of the 26 who died.  The original memorial on the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center was demolished when the fountain was razed.  We seem to do more "razing" than "raising" lately.

 

Gateway Plaza Park

Broadway and Avenue Q

Lubbock, Texas