Through Fields of Marsh

Marshfield, Wisconsin, is one of those out of the way towns that you would most likely pass by without stopping. But once you’re there, you may never leave.

I got to visit Marshfield about a month ago. I was there working on the Images of Marshfield magazine.

As I scoped out the town, I noticed these steel sculptures scattered throughout and did a little research. They were created by retired attorney Clyde Wynia. He’ll tell you he’s an “amateur paleontologist” who has managed “to excavate and recreate as best as possible the now extinct creatures that inhabited the large McMillan Marsh near Marshfield, Wisconsin during the Iron Age.”

In reality Wynia creates his sculptures from scrap metal that he finds or is brought to him. He “leases” his fossils for a period of 99 years at his field research facility called Jurustic Park.

Nancy and Clyde Wynia stand in front of the Hobbit House at Jurustic Park outside Marshfield, WI.

Calvary Bible Church

Painter Victoria Montoya Mesa works in her studio at the Chestnut Avenue Center for the Arts.

A windmill at the Hamus Nature Preserve and Recreation Area.

Andrea Mahnke, right, works with a subject in Interaction Lab of the Biomedical Informatics Research Center housed in the Laird Center for Medical Research in Marshfield, WI. The Laird Center for Medical Research, a world-class medical research and education facility, is named after health care advocate, former statesman and US Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird.

Early morning frost turns to water on a feather at Wildwood Park and Zoo.

John Twiggs is one of the instructors at the Karuna Yoga Studio in Marshfield, WI. The studio uses geothermal energy to heat the studio.