Always a Bridesmaid

Requiring months of starvation, the bikini bridal attire was a lot to ask of Esmeralda's girl friends. But Debbie thought the tong overstepped their friendship.

If I still had a butt, I would be so picking this little red string out of it.

Score

• 3 garden rakes dressed: 6 points

Subtotal: 6 points

Creativity Bonus

For 3 garden tools dressed in colors to accent a stunning hedge of hydrangeas and the for the totally inexplicable reason for doing so: 3 points

Total: 9 points

I think the veils are a nice touch to formalize the event.


To view other Pascal Kestemont's spectacular garden photos (link)

Totem Art

"John, Did you place those exquisite pieces we bought on vacation out in the front lawn like I told you?"

yeah, yeah... I put 'em out.

Score

• Ring around the rosie pedestal: 1 point
• Atlas holding the world or maybe a harpy with wingspan birdbath: 1 point
• Man astride an eagle triumphantly waving a feather while balanced on a cake: 1 point

Subtotal: 3 points

Creativity Bonus

For the space saving option of stacking all of your fine statuary in one place to keep me from having to view your entire yard to admire them: 3 points.

Total: 6 points

Just because you have a fancy pedestal doesn't mean you have to go crazy with it.

Squirrels With Chips on Their Shoulders

We don't see a whole lot of chain saw yard art in my neck of the woods. You have to travel further west to say, Grandfather Mountain to get good rough-hewn lawn ornaments. Usually you can find a lot of bears or wolves for sale on the side of the road so I'm glad to see some people have expanded their repertoire.

The Squirrel King is satisfied with your corn offering. There will be no corncob stabbing this day.

Score

• Large squirrel: 1 point
• Smaller minion squirrel (out of proportion bonus): 2 points
• Ear of corn: 1 point
• Flag name plate: 0 points

Subtotal: 4 points

Creativity Bonus

For sword wielding defender of the maize: 1 point

Total: 5 points

Do not anger the Squirrel King with your acorn jests.

Silver Bull

When displaying valuable object d'art staging and presentation becomes extremely important.

tackyjulie shares her important archaeological discovery:

Not only does he have a full-sized bull statue (painted silver), but there is a bird cage with a small bird in it hanging from one of his horns. Inexplicable, yet strangely appealing. He's also got a 1957 pink Cadillac convertible in the carport.

Rope added later for additional security

Score:

• Giant silver bull with bird cage accessory : 2 points + 1 point
• Rusted back end of a tractor?: 0 points
• Milk crate planter: 0 points

Subtotal: 3 points

Creativity Bonus

For witnessing the final decline of a once great Bull God reduced to living in an overgrown yard chained to rusty agricultural equipment and suffering eternal tweeting: 4 points

Total: 7 points

Receiver of the Golden Manatee of Creative excellence

Nashville - The Slaughter Continues

We took a break from the Nashville point massacre but now it is time to return to the scene of the crime and visit next door.

eventer79: They have not yet achieved their neighbor's greatness, but still......

ouch, I'm glad I am just the score keeper

Score (going right to left this time) eventer79 provides score commentary & my comments are in red

• Boy and girl reclining: 1 point
• Angel with harp: 0 points
• Thoughtful fairy with bird feather wings and bird friend: 1 point
• Fairy with wire wings: 1 point
• Mournful frogs (kitsch): 3 points
• Giant raccoon eyeing....
• Tasty fairy on a pedestal: 2 points
• A fallen thing that may be related to...
• Three dark squirrels: 3 points
• Fairy with harp: 1 point
• Buck, doe, and fawn (exact same airbrushed set that neighbour has, maybe
• there was a sale): 3 points (very elegant... for deer statues)
• Kissing children on bench (way too young for that!): 1 point
• Girl with purse: 1 point
• Gnome: 4 points
• Green gazing ball: 1 point
• Squirrel pair (looks like they are carrying a bomb box): 1 point
• Giant harp angel: 0 points
• Leaning lighthouse: 1 point
• Unfortunate bird who looks like a goose mated with a stork who mated
• with a heron (my guess is a white kiwi oh oh or an ibis): 1 point
• 2 Windblown lions: 2 points
• Giant angel with dove: 1 point
• Coy fairy: 1 point
• St Francis with dove: 0 points
• Enormous baby, probably ate the rest of St Francis' animals (again with the red pedestal): 1 point
• Lab with lantern and two pups (been seeing this a lot lately): 1 point
• Little girl with doll, possibly pondering eating well-fed baby: 1 point
• Boy in hat with dog, talking to bird in hand (what he is not taking to a potato?): 1 point

second picture

• Owl with two babies: 1 point
• Turtle: 1 point
• Two Disdainful frogs: 2 points
• Waving polar bear, trying to flag down passing cars to take him
• someplace colder: 1 point
• Frogs on a bench (kitsch factor): 3 points
• Miniature pelican: 1 point
• Chameleon (or blue jay): 1 point
• Cardinal: 1 point
• Fairy under birdbath: 1 point
• Child with snowballs ambushing bear: 1 point
• Deer-hog-elephant like animals with star necklaces (it WAS fourth of July): 2 points
• Two children behind bush: 1 point
• Fairy: 1 point
• Polka dotted frog: 1 point

Subtotal: 51 points

Creativity Bonus

As mass collections go, this display is a pretty gone one. It is unfortunate the poor collector lives next door to the greatest yard of all time (so far). But not one piece is outstanding in its own right and the grouping is not inspired. 0 points

Total: 51 points

To follow the blood trail:

Nashville the Mini-series part 1
Nashville the Mini-series part 2
Nashville the Mini-series part 3

Sunbather

Gerald always enjoyed getting a spot of sun in the garden with his best friends.

Dowse the lamp, Gerald... you know it always draws the neighbors.

Score

• Duck: 1 point
• Deer: 1 point
• Gnome: 4 points
• Mini Gnome: 4 points
• Rooster on a stick: 1 point
• 3 flowers on a stick: 3 points
• Trellis covered in plastic roses: 0 points

Subtotal: 14 points

Creativity Bonus

um... I'm sorry I can't concentrate.

Total: 14 points

The elderly are drawn to the light like moths.

Snow White's Entourage

Snow White's spear of influence grows ever widening. Not only does her Inner Seven stay close at hand but now she has tiny minions hovering under foot awaiting orders.

Snow White has given up her taste for birds, bunnies and bambis at least... as friends

Score

• Snow White: 1 point
• 7 dwarfs / henchmen: 7 points
• Bear on the lookout: 1 point
• Scout on horseback: 1 point
• 1 suspicious elf hiding in the back: 1 point
• Angel (you don't fool me, princess): 0 points
• Pot on docking pole pedestal(?): 0 points
• 7 gnomes / mini-henchmen: 28 points (score!)

Subtotal: 39 points

Creativity Bonus

For the gathering of troops to fit within the boundaries of her flower bed kingdom: 1 point.

Total: 40 points

Ride Cowboy Bob, ride... the boys are looking mighty hungry.

Where are your little forest friends now, hmm?

To see other Valerie Everette photo offerings link here.

Cats and Gnomes - The Final Chapter

And lo the Hell Cat was summoned to the Overworld to seek revenge upon the tormentor in aid of all his feline brethren...

At least that is what Snookums said.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Say what you want about us Southerners but we do know how fix things when we have a shortfall.

Hose reel is busted, heck we'll just use the deer over there. Wait, some of the deer are missin' their legs ... shoooot, just put 'em on blocks.

Score:

• 4 deer: 4 points
• Garden hose: 0 points (but part of the overall decor)
• 2 synchronized toilets (because well what else do you do with extra toilets?): 2 points

Subtotal: 6 points

Creativity Bonus

For the overall ambiance of rural southern culture: 1 point

Total: 7 points

For other fine photo journalism on the south visit Brent and Marilynn at Flickr

The Purple House - Part 2

Lola Nova is back in the game with more entries from the Kool-Aid colored house in Oregon.

"Is it a retirement home for yard art? In any case...The carnage continues..."

Score (list provided by Lola Nova, my comments are in red)

• 6 birdbaths (+1 for the fish throwing up in its bowl on the left): 7 points
• 1 Dutch girl: 1 point
• 1 windmill: 1 point
• 1 sleepy sombrero guy: 1 point
• 2 deer in Xmas light bondage (score! holiday bonus) 14 + 2 points
• 2 bunnies: 2 point
• 1 turtle: 1 point
• 1 frog trapped on a lily pad: 1 point
• 1 frog crooning under an umbrella or mushroom? (kitsch factor with added delight of missing lover frog) 3 points
• 1 tree stump gnome house with extra gnome: 1 + 4 points
• 1 squirrel: 1 point

2nd pic

• 1 pillar with old kettle full of plastic flowers: 1 point
• 1 urn of sedums: 0 points
• 1 birdbath: 1 point
• 1 creepy head escaping from wall (ahhhh!, I'm OK now... there is another ): 2 points
• 1 golden chipmunk (it’s no golden manatee) - true, so true: 1 point
• and tons of old watering cans - (0 points)

Subtotal: 44 points

Creativity Bonus

For the Quato effect in the retaining wall... which I did not appreciate: 2 points

Total: 46 points

open your mind to me

Double Indemnity - Chicken Noir

Anyone who grew up with me knows I have a general mistrust of chickens. And to join the spirit of today's entry, I find poultry most fowl.

eventer79 comments and submits:

"Don't "cluck" with this chicken couple or they'll "flock" you up! Observe Mr. Goose who hasn't made good on his "bill." As Mme. Chicken explains to her man, "That'll teach him to 'wing' it!" And as a bonus, check out who's hiding in the hydrangeas behind the car!!!! Score!!! (Actually, I didn't even see him when I was taking the pictures)"

"Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money - and a woman - and I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it? "
Tar Heel detective investigating the crime. Gnome in witness protection

Score

• Rooster: 1 point
• Chicken: 1 point
• Decapitated goose: 1 point
• Wheelbarrow suitable for body removal: 0 points
• Ram: 1 point
• Bunny: 1 point
• Gnome in hiding: 4 points

Subtotal: 9 points

Creativity Bonus

For slaughter of Mr Goose by rotten to the core poultry: 2 points

Total: 11 points

Hen: We're both rotten.
Rooster: Only you're a little more rotten.

Realization Through Meditation

Sebastian practiced his meditation exercises everyday

I will achieve my goal through visualization

If we only knew what he is trying to visualize...

Thanks Apolloguy7

Florida Revisited

Several talented photographers have submitted their photos to be scored in the Life's Highway game. d/iowa is one of them. She entered a beautifully cropped and balanced photograph suitable for a magazine spread... then she began to realize our little game is all about points.

So in the spirit of the recount whose precedent was set by Our First Scandal - CSI North Carolina

The recount

Score (for the remaining points)

• 5 kids of which 2 are of the hallelujah variety: 5 points
• 2 highly indiscreet elves: 2 points
• Bunny: 1 point
• 3 cats: 3 points
• Santa and Ninja Santa: 17 points (holiday bonus - score!)
• Another elf: 1 point
• Gnome: 4 points
• Lighthouse: 1 point
• Pelican: 1 point
• Maid with goosing geese: 1 point
• Cherub with broken gazing globe: 1 point for the broken orb
• Easter Bunny with disturbing growth between its legs (holiday bonus): 3 points
• Angel and Madonna: 0 points
• Deer: 1 point

Subtotal: 40 points

Creativity Bonus

For a mass collection where every discernible empty surface has been stuffed with plastic flowers: 1 point

Total: 41 points

Everyone should be grateful that The Higher Power has not turned her unforgiving eyes our way.

A Fine Driving Horse

Last week a new award was announced to recognize those game players who discover an artistic presentation so exciting that total creativity points must be awarded: the golden manatee

cristoba has relented to play Life's Highway game with the following selection:

Giddy up there, Trigger

Score

• Palomino pony: 1 point
• Beaver: 1 point
• Windmill: 0 points (it may be functioning)
• Pony cart: 1 point
• OMG, sock monkey (sorry, over-excited): 1 point

Subtotal: 4 points

Creativity Bonus

It's a sock monkey. A sock monkey driving a pony cart while carrying a fire bucket... for the amusement of a beaver: 4 points

Total: 8 points

dont, cry... I know I know, but you earned it.

Thank you eventer79 for creating the great golden manatee graphic.

You can see cristoba's other photo offerings by linking here

The Cow Whisperer

Eli knew with the right amount of coaxing, he could get Bessie to jump through the hoop.

Typical Yard in the Midwest

Here we have a typical yard in the suburbs of Missouri.

eventer79 comments and submits:

This brown bear has decided to hell with trying to grab salmon with your teeth,all you get is fins in your gums and wet, smelly fur.
This yard also has lab + lantern and two puppies,
birdbath with squirrel,
3 plastic geese
other birdbath which had three squirrels chasing each other around the tree trunk, stupid fence was in the way.

OK, let's take a look

Bear fishing with a popeil pocket fisherman and prerequisite plastic flowers

Geese warily eyeing suspicous growths on very tall bird bath

Bird feeder wearing tinfoil hat to protect seeds from alien mind control

Score

• Chain saw crafted bear: 1 point
• 3 geese: 3 points
• 2 birdbaths: 2 points
• Lab and puppy begging for mercy: 1 point
• Bird feeder with aluminum mind deflector: 0 points

Subtotal: 7 points

Creativity Bonus

For luring squirrels into a suspected alien abducting center by placing decoys around your birdbaths and feeders: 1 point

Total: 8 points

You can never be too diligent

How Secure is First Place?

A challenge has been thrown to our current leader by a dark horse player.

d/iowa submits the following and issues a warning:

just wait till my road trip from Atlanta to Iowa- I'm gonna steal first place!

Superior alien cat is offended by the decor and the empty headed bunny. Do not force her to burn him again.

Score

• Tall regal kitty, who is too good for this: 1 point
• 3 rabbits of various sizes: 3 points
• Cowering hiding dog: 1 point
• Meaningful Brown dog wishing to help the situation: 1 point
• Snowman head on a stick(with the price tag still visible.): 1 point
• Holiday Bonus in July!!!: 7 points

subtotal: 14 points

Creativity

For the capture of an elegant cyan art deco cat within a stone ring of power and forcing the feline to live among perceived inferiors who enjoy a plastic flower or two. 2 points

Total: 16 points

You can catch her d/iowa but it will not be easy.

Swingers of the Animal Kingdom

The animals of the forest neighborhood got together for a little social mixer.

Hey y'all watch this

Lovely day for an outing.

Halp!!!

Apparently, wolves are not cut out for the swingers lifestyle.

Beary Personal

Back when I was a kid, the spay/neuter trend was almost non-existent. In fact in the backwoods and rural parts of North Carolina it is still non-existent. Anyway, during my childhood is was not unusual to be scarred for life by viewings of doggie love and once in a while dog "relations" would be present in the background of family photos.

Changing the subject, bear yard art is quite common in other parts of the country and...

hey! stop that.

Score

2 bears (black variety): 2 points
2 bears (polar variety): 2 points
1 bear (Grizzly dressed variety): 2 points
2 nervous deer: 2 point
Rock art chicken: 1 point
Plastic flowers: 0 points (I just like pointing them out)

subtotal: 10 points

Creativity Bonus

2 points for a bear collection. I will disregard the forbidden love.

Total: 12 points

Thus concludes today's lesson on Bears in North America.

Thank you diffuse for playing along.

And the Band Played On

We interrupt this journey for a brief musical interlude

passengers are required to hold onto their souls

Management is not responsible for contracts made with the devil, voices in your head or a strange desire to dance naked in the forest.

Nashville - The Mini Series - Part 3

To continue the blood bath that is Nashville... Take it away eventer79

Now we move up on to the porch and include the second birdbath as well. Although the porch holds the ultimate item -- I think there should be a special category for gilded marine mammals

Score (list provided by eventer79, my comments are in red)

Birdbath (again with the plastic flowers) includes slightly disgruntled girl pouring water
Goose at base & animal in her water vat?: 1 point for the birdbath where is the goose?

Behind her:
Another constipated lion (snort): 1 point
Goose and two babies: 3 points
Frog in one of those straw hats with a ribbon (a boater): 1 point
Dog with a bone: 1 point
Four rabbits: 1 point
Large brown rabbit (what not a hare?): 1 point
Another puppy with bone (he got cut off in editing) - (please you expect me to actually trust you?): 0 points

On the porch:
Wait for it.....wait for it..........YES
It's a giant golden manatee!!!!!! (with child): 1 point
Little child Defender of Manatees with Defending Stick: 1 point
Angel behind manatee: 0 points
Two doves: 2 points
Fairy child: 1 point
Angel: 0 points

subtotal: 13 points

Creativity Bonus

For the owning and displaying of a giant golden manatee: 4 points

Total: 17 points

Maximum count for Nashville House #1: 117 points

Henceforth all maximum creativity bonuses shall be decreed a golden manatee.

For any of you Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel users: submit your rendition of a golden manatee to be used on auspicious awarding days. I'll choose the best one.... or make my own -no pressure.

World Domination

To cleanse your palette after the point massacre of the past few days.

For a moment, Ernest questioned his master plan

Nashville - The Mini Series - Part 2

Day 2 of the fantastical Nashville Tour. Same house as yesterday but we have moved onto the right side of the front yard.

eventer79: Now, we are going to skip over the porch itself and score the other side

Score (as listed by eventer79, my comments are in red)

- Two beagle pups (wrapped around a tiny birdbath): 1 point
- A stranded swordfish: 1 point
- Labrador with lantern and pup (maybe dad and brother?): 2 points
- Battered firedog (hat not detachable): 1 point
- Fox on a stump (eyeing the bunnies across the walk, no doubt): 1 point
- Harp angel with spawn on skirt (great word "spawn"): 0 points
- Two huggy children: 1 point
- Hare (because it is not a rabbit): 1 point
- Two bunnies carrying a stump?: 1 point
- Tiny bunny: 1 point
- Large brown duck, looks like a blue-winged teal: 1 point
- Two boys with hats (one of the boys seems to be a Scot): 2 points
- Reading fairy: 1 point
- Glassy-eyed rabbit (as opposed to a hare): 1 point
- Angel checking the tune on her mandolin: 0 points
- Two frogs on a bench, one cradling his newly broken heart: (kitsch): 3 points
- Goose: 1 point
- Gnome with wheelbarrow (full of toys, who is he kidding): 4 points
- Squirrel with plans: 1 point
- Another large squirrel: 1 point
- Elf-eared gnome (these seem to be weird hybrid elf-gnomes): 4 points
- Girl fairy: 1 point
- Panting lab mix: 1 point
- Boy with no eyes (disturbing): 1 point
- Mallard: 1 point
- Poodle with Rocky Horror makeup: 1 point
- Frogs arguing on a bench (kitsch factor): 3 points
- Buck: 1 point
- Frog: 1 point
- Girl with no eyes (these vacant-faced children are quite creepy!): 1 point
- Two angry owls (who who damn it): 2 points
- Oddly graceful doe: 2 points
- Gnome with watering can: 4 points
- Christmas girl and boy dancing the jitterbug: 2 points
- Another frog: 1 point
- Cat (bewildered): 1 point
- Bear hugging flower (I am embarrassed for him): 1 point
- Lantern (could be functional): 0 points
- Boy with dog: 1 point
- Lighthouse: 1 point

Subtotal: 55 points

Creativity Bonus

A mass-collection without any distinquishable points of interest. There were a few almost-Christmas decoration that slightly raised my eyebrow but all in all not inspired. 0 points

Today's total: 55 points

Running total on entire yard: 100 points

Sniff, I am so proud.

Nashville - The Mini-series - Part 1

eventer79 has been on holiday in Nashville and took time out from a romantic weekend to maintain her impressive lead in the Life's Highway Game.


Score (as presented by eventer79)

- Happy goose at end of downspout: 1 point
- Goose with pink mohawk: 1 point
- 2 Shy squirrels in the back: 2 points
- Constipated lion: 1 point
- Goose behind lion digging for lion turds: (tsk, nice) 1 point
- Trepidatious spaniel behind lion: 1 point
- Momma bunny and surprised baby: 2 points
- Triumphant (and enormous!) raccoon eyeing the nuts dropped by...
- Girl with apron: 2 points
- Lowrider frog peeping over bricks: 1 point
- Reclining frog who appears rather gay: 1 point
- Kitty bleeding from ear: 1 point
- Jr raccoon looks like he has to pee: 1 point
- Angel blessing... (there is another creature behind her but I can't id it)
- Boy with basket who looks annoyed that his mother made him get his basket blessed: 1 point
- Smug fawn: 1 point
- Posing smutty fairy under birdbath: 1 point
- Girl with basket avoiding angel duties: 1 point
- Rooster: 1 point
- Landbound lighthouse: 1 point
- Less smug fawn, may be lovechild of a rabbit father: 1 point
- Bunny in front of fawn, perhaps a half-sibling?: 1 point
- Child reading book with hands over ears to hide cacophany of animal mayhem surrounding her: 1 point
- Two pigs: 2 points
- Cherub in birdbath praying for...
- Three frogs: 3 points
- Bunny and
- Duckling at base of birdbath (which by the way is surrounded by plastic flowers): 2 points
- Three children and puppy on bench. One child appears to be the third wheel, hence the backseat: 1 point
- Reading girl dreaming of flying out of this madness: 1 point
- Very fat goose: 1 point
- Another smug and rather scheming-looking fawn: 1 point
- Cherub who also has to pee (this area may be over-watered): 0 points
- Labrador and pup: 1 point
- Minnie Mouse (who invited her to this monochrome party???): 1 point
- Cherub removing earring: 0 points
- Gnome reading under a mushroom, annoyed by his noisy neighbours -- he'd almost finished
"The Inferno": 4 points (corrected)
- Boy and girl on swing: 1 point

Subtotal: 42 points

Creativity Bonus

For the smugness factor of the deer clique and the apparent lack of bathrooms for the rest of the population: 3 points

Total: 45 points

Stay tuned for Nashville - The Yard Art Strikes Back

Watermelon Boy

Most families will be cooking out or enjoying other outdoor activities today. What summertime fun could be complete without the cutting open of an ice cold watermelon.

um....Happy Forth of July, y'all?

You can find it on ebay: (ebay link) If you buy, put it in your yard and photograph it...I'll give you maximum points.

I grew up in the south and I have never seen one of these.

Our House Is A Very Very Very Fine House - Part 1

I've heard tales about a house in Oregon. Whispers on the wind traveling amongst the fellow yard and lawn enthusiasts. A place where genius overruns with a sheer will to own every single item ever sold designed to plunk down in your garden.

lolanova comments and submits:

There seems to be some sort of diabolical gathering at the home for wayward yard art.

Score (provided by lolanova, my comments are in red)

1 donkey with cart (he'll never be able to get his load of rusty horse shoes through that rose bush): 3 points

3 ducks: 3 points

4 geese (mama and 3 babies): 4 points

4 birdbaths (filled with sundry baubles and sea related items): 4 points

2 urns with dinner plates and dead plants (hee, I do that too): 2 points

1 kind of nefarious badger type creature (perhaps a sea lion?): 1 point

1 squirrel: 1 point

1 lighthouse with sea cottage attached: 1 point

1 little red headed girl being swallowed by a carnivorous plant ( I hate when that happens): 1 point

1 wooden fox/dog? staring at the

2 naked boys who are also being leered at by

1 cherub who is about to be pecked by

1 swan: 1 point, 2 points, 0 points, 1 point

1 girl pulling up her dress over the dis-embodied heads of

3 most likely cherubs: 1 point

2 brightly painted frogs: 2 points

1 big dog with a basket of frog in his mouth: 1 point

2 flamingos: 1 point

1 eyeless ghost child doing the hand jive (ok, she is pretty scary): 1 point

1 completely terrified religious statue: 0 points

1 red dragon (I love this): 1 point

1 mushroom: 1 point

1 unidentified woodland critter: 1 point

1 man in hat hiding from the dragon behind an old washtub: 1 point

and 2 wooden tulips for good measure: 2 points

Subtotal: 34 points

Creativity Bonus

The nerve of this home owner allowing flowers to grow up and block parts of that glorious collection. What do they think this is anyway a garden? 2 points for mass collection.

Total: 36 points

Check out lolanova's spectacular Hen Taj Mahal I think the chickens need a gnome, just sayin'

They Call It Turtle Love

When accepting invitations to social functions parameters and expectations must be set.

International Flower Spy submits:


Kermit accepted to join the Turtle Brothers in a foursome assuming they meant a round of golf. That was his first mistake... there would be others.

Score

• 3 turtles: 3 points
  
• Remorseful Frog: 1 point

Subtotal: 4 points

Creativity Bonus

For the inappropriate turtle love trust upon an unsuspecting amphibian: 2 points

Total: 6 points

You know, Kermit never liked golf that much anyway.

Brown Dog Garden

I have very strict rules as to what yard art items are counted in the game. I do not count rocks, stumps or infestations.

CTWD comment and submits:

"I realize that live objects are not really considered yard art but this is just too cute."

If you don't pull those weeds out by the roots they just keep coming back.

Score: 0 points

Nice try CTWD, but my heart is harden to chocolate cuteness. And someone tell Fred, that he didn't get the memo, it is red collar day at the job.

Boykin Spaniel garden located in Blythewood, South Carolina.