The Skokie Sculpture Park invited me to do a temporary installation in 1999. This suburb north of Chicago is known as a center of Jewish life, and also as the location of a notorious rally by the Nazi Party that led to a Supreme Court decision on Freedom of Speech. I wanted to counterpoint the gravity of Skokie's history and reputation, and drew inspiration from the children's game "Candyland." On the coldest day of the year, I and my wonderful family and fiance and a few hardy friends spent hours skewering several thousand gumdrops onto the thorns of 3 hawthorn trees in the park. The trees became colorful and the thorns were made "safe". By Spring, most of the gumdrops had faded in the sun, fallen to the ground and melted a bit from the rain. It was surprising to see that the black ones attracted all the migrating ladybugs.