Wednesday on my way home from the library I went home a different way and discovered a gold mine.
It isn't on every stroll through town you see license plate gates or toasters and tricycles hanging from trees.
Not to mention flower power bath tub planters and driftwood crabs with headlight eyes.
And don't get me started on the typewriter pendants and the singer sewing machine.
Yard art heaven. Right here in Lawrence. I am adding it to the list of "things to show people who come to visit from out of town". If you want to see it and I'm not around, it's on Maine street between 6th and 9th street. The subtle placement of the re-purposed statue of the golfer who had lost his club was my personal favorite... but believe me, there IS something for everyone here.
Oh I do hope they put up extensive christmas lights? looking forward to your holiday "tour".
Posted by: sharon | 08/30/2013 at 05:59 AM
Holy Moly! It's now on my list of must-sees! :D
Posted by: Judy H. | 08/30/2013 at 05:59 AM
Does some little part of you wish that you could just turn your back on convention and do whatever decorative thing comes to mind? Express your artist's soul in all its outlandish glory? Part of me wishes that I could do that but the rest of me puts on the brakes. I'm not sure I would want to live with it every day, though. I need a calm place, too.
Posted by: Caroline | 08/30/2013 at 09:01 AM
What a treasure trove you've found!!!! I'd drive out of my way just to see what's new there.... sort of like the game I Spy.
Posted by: emie | 08/30/2013 at 09:46 AM
Looks like it's been there awhile, this museum of flotsam and jetsam. Did you meet the
Curator? I agree with Caroline. There is something in all, perhaps many, that would
Love to let go of convention and let it all hang out.
But don't think surrounded EVERYDAY might just get tiresome and confusing. I do so
Love the little bear. He looks like he went down to the woods where all the bears
Were gathered for the teddy bear picnic and could not find a one. Poor lost bear.
Carol, hope you go back from time to time and show us more and perhaps a story
About artist?
Wouldn't it be grand at Christmas with fairy lights?
Posted by: Barbara Tarbox | 08/30/2013 at 10:38 AM
The only thing missing is the person(s)who lives there who I'd love to meet since they aren't afraid to express themselves!
Posted by: Nancy from Fair Oaks, California | 08/31/2013 at 01:10 PM