Porter SculptureGarden

Tuesday morning we continued on toward Wyoming. About 30 miles west of Sioux Falls we stopped at the Porter Sculpture Garden. We were met by the artist Wayne Porter. By far the most striking sculpture is the Bull Head. We learned that the head represents some extinct Egyptian Long Horn ?!?!?! and is made mostly out of railroad plates welded together. Wayne is truly gifted with a welding rod even if his topics are a little bit bizarre (in my opinion). The eye of the bull has a very human look to it. Several odd skeleton beasts guard the Bull and the real treat comes when you look inside the bull head. There is some kind of tortured demon hanging behind the bridge of the Bull's nose and it is quite freaky. We were told to watch out for the bats and sure enough several were hanging around inside the bull. Ellie was allowed to walk the path around with us. However she didn't think it was so great. At one point she walked as far away from the sculptures as her 20' lease would allow. I think she was worried one of the sculptures would "get her".