These are some of the famous 'snowshoe' wires that run throughout the city. Legend has it that the early pioneers would throw their real snowshoes up into the air every year on June 19th, in celebration of the end of wood tick season, and when the city began installing electric lines they decided to make some of the wires look like snowshoes -- or not: you can't trust anything you read in a blog nowadays.
A feral cat, getting ready to pounce on a budgie, or perhaps a native wombat. Provo is famous for the tenacity of its feral cats. In 1953 the city attempted to exterminate them with flamethrowers -- the result was that the cats all moved out to Tooele and came back a year later, tougher and with tattoos. Now even the city police give them a wide berth.
Art installation by renowned sculptor Bruce Veldhuisen, entitled "One of Our Safety Pins is Missing." It was commissioned by the city of Provo to celebrate diversity, trans fats, and fringe radio. To date, over ten thousand tourists have mistaken it for Seven Flags, Utah.
The mysterious 'tree in a fence,' located just off of 300 East, has baffled scientists for years. Urban legend has it that a large batch of brownie mix gone bad escaped from a nearby kitchen and was immobilized by stun guns just as it began oozing through this fence to attack a kindergarten. Others believe that if you rub the 'wood' you'll get a lucky splinter in your finger that will turn to gold. Most scientists now believe a dinosaur left it behind during the last Ice Age.
One of the many cheerful 'sweeps' that give Provo such a hygienic feeling. The city is famous from stem to stern for its lack of trash and Democrats. Both are swept up and dumped into Utah Lake quite frequently.
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