Monday, September 14, 2015

Fairy Blog - St Andrew

Home to about 30,000 people, St. Andrew is a small town surrounded by woodlands. The founders planned the town around its' central most point located at a large oak tree.  As such, St. Andrew's Park was then designed around the majestic tree.

Anything and everything a resident of St. Andrew needed could be found by visiting the Town Center, as the area was known. Across from one side of the park are the St Andrew Town Hall offices as well as the town’s library. Restaurants and shops are across from two adjacent sides of the park. St. Andrew’s PS 1, a K-12 public school, is also across the street from the park leaving the imposing St Andrew University campus to the final side of the park.

There are only four stoplights and they are located at each of the corners of the park. Daniel's bike shop is at the corner with the longest light because it has the most traffic. Residents of St Andrew take great pride in their lovely park and have regular park beautification volunteer days where nearly half the town comes out to make St Andrew's Park as well kept as possible. 

St. Andrew is also incredibly bicycle-friendly. The roads are shared  throughout the town by all kinds of bicycle riders like daily commuters, recreational riders, and racing teams. Obviously bicycle fairies can be found there. 

When the bicycle shop, owned by Daniel and Sarita, opened near the park, bicycle fairies began congregating in the St Andrew's Park at the large oak tree.  To decorate their meeting place, they mounted several free spinning bicycle rims that rotated in the breeze. If you looked at it at just the right angle it would appear as if the tree was a giant pin-wheel. The mayor's office of St Andrew assumed the Park Commission authorized a public art display. Amusingly, the Park Commission assumed the Town did the same. Though no town official could trace the origin, it was generally appreciated by everyone and so it stayed. 

Not only did the bike fairies think the spinning rims looked cool, they threw wild parties on stormy nights. The rims often spun so fast that it appeared as if they would fly off the tree at any moment. The bicycle fairies didn't care about that, they were enjoying their favorite fairy tunes from the spinning wheels.