We're still on the road, enjoying sculpting balloons during our busiest Summer season ever! We were recently invited to created balloon sculptures for an event in Little Rock, Arkansas.Little Rock is a gorgeous city with so many wonderful attractions: the Clinton Presidential Center, Heifer Village, the terrific old school street cars, an amazing farmer's market, fabulous restaurants...and the impressive Peabody Hotel. As a nod to the Peabody heritage, it was requested that we sculpt a duck pond, complete with the Peabody Ducks!
We had two opportunities to watch the ducks do their daily march, first arriving for "work" in the late morning and then departing in the early evening. Lloyd the duckmaster is a true Southern gentleman and has an amazing way not only with ducks but also with all of the people who come to watch the ducks. As we watched the ducks arrive in the morning, we noticed he had asked each child in the audience for their assistance, entrusting each of them with a task important to the duck's safe arrival into the pond. Every child there was standing at attention and surely felt their job was critical to the success of that morning's duck march. Lloyd is a truly skilled entertainer as well as duckmaster.
In addition to creating the duck pond, we also created a peaceful park-like setting and hundreds of balloon blossoms. It was beautiful!
Next week brings another large sculpture installation. Stay tuned...
