The "Funion"

While in Cary photographing Russ's sculpture, we found the sculpture is very popular with the surrounding neighbors. Kids call it the "Hersey Kiss" or the "Funion" because they said it looks like an onion, but it's fun.

When the stainless steel mushroom on the bottom spins, it turns the 23-foot tall pole which makes the top spin. The little kids love to play on it like a merry-go-round.

And the teenagers are more daring. It does seem like a kid-magnet, or maybe it's really a people magnet. It seems to attract all sorts of people at all hours of the day and night. Sometimes they just sit on the benches on the edge of the sculpture and talk...

But mostly they just spin, spin, spin.