Trash, art, or creative gardening?

July 5th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Remember when I mentioned some examples of our brand of small town quirk? If not, take a look at these posts to see just how much we value choices and ducks around here.

Anyway, this yard downtown takes the cake. I really should have explored a bit more and taken a few more pictures. The homeowner was sitting on his porch swing when I rolled up to just take a shot of that weird dead tree/bottle thingy. He totally invited me to look around. But, despite it being the middle of the day, it just felt a little creepy.

There’s a bunch of other crazy stuff going on there (gardening-wise) though. I’ll have to go back for a closer look some other time.

5 responses so far ↓

1 Mark // Jul 5, 2007 at 9:24 pm

Yep, that is a picture of small town America! Too much time and not enough talent.

Hi Mark,
Whatever is going on, it sure is fun to document it.
Chris
2 *Shamoo* // Jul 6, 2007 at 9:24 pm

Or too much talent
3 cityteacher // Jul 8, 2007 at 5:07 pm

Weird America! This belongs in a book if it isn’t already.

Thanks City,
Hope your summer is going well!
Chris
4 Jessica // Jul 10, 2007 at 6:36 pm

I think you probably know what I think it is. ART!!! And I think it’s wonderful! Like his own little sculpture park. How cool that this guy looked at certain objects and said, I can make something from these things. It may not mean something to the average person, but it means something to him. I think it’s refreshing that his lawn doesn’t look like everyone else’s, with the trimmed hedges and the “right” lawn ornaments.

Jessica!

Thanks for your perspective on this one.
Perfect.

Chris
5 Sam Sizer // Sep 14, 2007 at 11:29 pm

What the heck!? That certainly is odd! Yeah! I would feel creeped out too if that guy invited me to look around in his yard.

Well, I’m sure it serves a purpose! It reminds me of a lady who decided that she wanted to stop drinking alcohol and took a makeshift tree and hanged the bottles on the tree for her final week and left it there as a symbol of her quitting. So it probably serves something like that… I hope… hahaha!

~Sam Sizer

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