I wonder which previous car’s shocks had to absorb that load.
Brought home no doubt during the same period when I couldn’t walk away from a cast-off manhole cover either.
Or an old street lamp glass shade. I seem to be continually bringing home bits of aging cities.
Nasturtiums flourish in whatever contains them, be it the finest Impruneta terracotta, a rusty sewer pipe, or an abandoned city lot.
Common and easy, but no less exquisite.
I see you’ve got your own “Rancho-esque” theme going on! I would have scooped up that pipe too…
Loree, I just keep a few things around but really had to put the brakes on bringing stuff home long ago and purged a lot of it. Way too small of a lot for such habits! But I get to experience it again vicariously through Reuben. He is the master!
That pipe is great! I used a few terracotta sewer pipes for awhile at my last garden. With several different heights, they grouped nicely. The street lamp looks a bit like our Portland city shades, minus the decorative metal band.
I like your urban artifacts. They tore a warehouse down nearby and amid the rubble I spotted a giant steel cog. I nearly re-herniated a disc trying to wrestle it into the car, but it was worth it as I have plans.
Jane, the lamp is huge! There was a post on Studio G of a fountain/light thingy made from a similar lamp but mine just sits for now.
Les, those words “tore a warehouse down” and “rubble” — I get shivers! Spines are such liabilities! Hope your back is better now. Looking forward to reading about your plans for the steel cog.
Well said, Denise! I love, love, love cast-offs and your manhole cover is a gem! Beautiful variegated foliage on your Nasturtiums!!
Grace, isn’t that Alaska strain a beauty?