It all started in 1986 when the city was awarded funds for an urban renewal project. A portion of these funds were set aside to begin the “mural project”. The success of this project has led to the expansion of the Delta Public Art Committee which is currently continuing the mural project and initiating a new program for sculpture and other 3 dimensional media art in public places.
In this series of multi-caches, the coordinates given are a virtual (the mural) from which you will gather information to find the second stage which will contain the log to be signed. The second stage has a connection to the first, perhaps only in the owners’ minds, but can you read our minds?
Not only an artistic interpretation of Colorado's varied wildflowers, but botanical study of the different types of wild flowers is presented in this mural. “Colorado Wildflowers” is painted on the north-facing wall of a Main Street building. To best view mural, enter adjacent parking lot via Meeker Street through Senior Center parking lot directly east of mural.
Artist, Dennis Reynolds used a triptych presentation to depict three Delta County ecosystems - alpine mountain, Uncompahgre Plateau, and an arid setting when he painted this mural in 2002. Listed along the bottom of the mural are some of the wildflowers found in the three ecosystems of this mural. See if you can identify them.
Chicory, Sunflower, Easter Daisy, Showy Milkweed, Wild Morning Glory, Bindweed, Gumweed, Violet Aster, Cat tails, Rabbit Bush, Water Lily, Rocky Mountain Iris, Mule Ears, Harebells, Fleabane, Columbine, Larkspur, Lupine, Indian Paintbrush, Dandelion, Fireweed, Aster, Golden Glow, Yucca, Claret Cup Cactus, Prickly Pear Cactus, Copper Mallow, S Lilly.
At the bottom of the mural each of these wildflowers are attached to a number, use these to calculate your second stage coordinates.
N=38 4 EasterDaisy . Gumweed Prickly Pear Cactus
W=Rabbit Brush 8 04.Showy Milkweed 4 Violet Aster
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM94FC_Colorado_Wildflowers_Delta_CO
Congratulations to Pauleefox, Rojo464, and whizzkid for FTF while team caching.
4-7-18: changed container from magnetic tin to something thin, while on the run having fun.
