[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0437]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "How dead is dead? Try an amusement park in the middle of winter for size. That's about as deserted a place as can be found. There's something about a wild ride that doesn't go with wintertime winds. Wedgewood Park has an even more deserted look about it than some. A couple of caretakers are on the property, but they don't have a lot to do. They touch up, paint a little bit and keep out people who don't belong there. Outside of that, nothing goes on. Oh, the field rats, thick at this time of year, made an effort to find a home there earlier. But this proved to be a bad choice - everything's shut down and cold, so the animals who escaped freezing moved on. The swimming pool looks a bit dismal without any water or pretty girls lounging around. The rides are gay affairs in summertime, but in winter they get pretty gruesome looking. The pretty painted cars are taken inside out of the weather............Yep. Better come back next summer. Amusement parks are happy places to forget about cares and stuff. But not in winter. They're downright sad.