1. Fantasy Yard Art Contest (Movie themed) for our film critics Thelma and Louise:
"Yeah, you can send your entries to lifeshighwaygame@gmail.com, but I don't think we have gotten enough press time. It's always gnomes, gnomes gnomes."
"Yes, and creepy stuff, she likes creepy stuff"
"I agree "
2. Speaking of weird stuff. Have you ever gone shopping with a good friend who picks up something horrifyingly bad and say "this looks just like you" They mean well and sadly in my case....they would be right.
Carolyn of Carolyn's Shade Gardens comments and submits for our enjoyment:
I took the attached photos for you last night at the 2011 Philadelphia International Flower Show, the biggest indoor flower show in the world. This year's theme is "Springtime in Paris", and all these photos are from a major exhibit entitled "Paris Underground" (the subway system in Paris). It was just plain weird but in an Along-Life's-Highway kind of way. I think your eaders will enjoy them if you want to use them.
Ah, thank you Carolyn.... hey wait:
This is Tufa Girl after I wear her out at the Austin Art Yards Festival. Great hat Tufa!
In fact just remind me not to go to Paris and wander around underground.
How did they get a picture of what we had for dinner? Don't build a display out of our Sunday brunch, OK!
Give that man a gnome, that should cheer him up. He's lonely and obviously been there for quite a while. There is a pretty good collection of pee-cups.
Now this I like! I wonder if I can make either mushroom into a hat for the festival
Your point, Carolyn.
Morbid Philly design. What a strange portrayal of the Paris underground for a theme of Springtime in Paris.I have a whole different view, but it is wacky yard art.
ReplyDeletewell I've never thought of springtime in Paris quite like that but to each their own I suppose.
ReplyDeleteIt all looks a little occult.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the hypothetical burial statue for an old bicycle. The skulls don't surprise me, because they're already been used to death by Damien Hirst.
LH, you've driven Tufa Girl to drink: shame on you! I am still fascinated by the death sock.
ReplyDeleteGWGT, is Philly known for morbid design. Because that does not make me feel like I want to stroll through their gardens.
ReplyDeleteMarguerite, yeah it seems Springtime in Paris, not so nice, actually.
Olga, Ah well I don't know design and art stuff. Who knew skulls were in vogue.
redgirl, Tufa Girl can't hold her wine. The death sock is disturbing. It looks very limber.
Poor Tufa Girl happened to be in a wrong place in a wrong time.
ReplyDeleteOlga, true but doesn't she wear a tinfoil shirt, nicely.
ReplyDeleteTufa Girl looks like the kind of friend you take with you so that when you pass out after 1 drink, you don't feel bad because she's already passed out from merely sniffing yours.
ReplyDeleteFor my conservative taste Tufa Girl's skirt is too short.
ReplyDeleteTufa is going to kill me when she gets home from work. Yeah, its a tad short but if you have the legs to pull it off....
ReplyDeleteYeah, how nice of Tufa Girl to be such a good sport about this!
ReplyDeleteHey, if *I* had Tufa's legs, I would wear that skirt :)
I hope she is not too close to death sock because that thing looks hungry and Tufa is starting to fad.
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ReplyDeleteTufa, after a number of hours at the Paris Underground Vineyards and Winery felt her feet getting sore. She perched on a handy ledge and began to swill the complementary bottle of 2008 Vintner's Blend. On about the 3rd glass, she felt too weak to stand. "Could it be the alky content?" her sluggish mind questioned, and the peered through the gloom to the bottle. 14.3%...respectable!
ReplyDeleteFoolishly putting her lethargy down to fermented grapes, the sock of death that lurked close in the shadows did its work.
Spring in Paris? Oh my. Now my whole idea of what Spring in Paris is like is all gone kaput. (Kaput is a word, trust me.) I'm picturing apple blossoms and flowers everywhere, not skulls and crossbones. The emaciated people did fit with my idea of France though, since all the models look like poor Tufa Girl. At least one of my dreams is still alive.
ReplyDeleteI know this word-Kaput. It means "finished forever," isn't it?
ReplyDeleteKaren, I was picturing pretty blossoms, too. Who wants to go down in the catacombs and think oooh pretty garden.
ReplyDeleteOlga, that is correct. As in the the people who met the sock of death are now kaput.
As a creative horticultural critic, the rule is simple, would you have any of the above in your property?
ReplyDeleteThe second argument is that even if really ugly, it may have some folkloric/cultural/ethnic value among some members of the community, multicultural or not.
Nice post. Congratulations, in five years of intercontinental blog peregrination, never found such theme treated as it should.
Thanks Carolyn for thinking of us when you were at the flower-show.
ReplyDeleteLH - re: the "hungry death sock" - I'm guessing you skipped breakfast this morning? In my imagination it's a fish-net stocking of a temptress ... and the skulls are symbolic of the men's lives she has ruined.
That definitely was my suntan last year. I love my outfit - are those magnolia leaves or feathers for the skirt? BTW, LH has a bit to learn about the wine drinking... that is my bottle and I am not sharing.
ReplyDeleteantigonum cajan, Thank you, we could use a few horticultural critics around here, as only only dab in the yard arts. Nice vocabulary (and no, I did not have to look up any of the big words, 'cause I know what you guys are thinking)
ReplyDeleteb-a-g, well yes if the temptress has really lumpy legs and bright red fungal growth. I was thinking more in the lines of a sand-worm with reg fungal growth.
Tufa Girl, you pass out holding onto a wine bottle, I can call dibs. I think the skirt is made of feathers?
Oh yea, I remember now, the skirt with the feathers. Must not wear that one again at the next garden show.
ReplyDeleteI guess since I took the photos with the idea of sending them to Along Life's Highway, I should have researched exactly what the intent of the exhibit was. Many of the other exhibits were filled with tulips and cherry blossoms. But I ask you would I send tulips and cherries to Along Life's Highway? But I have to say that many exhibitors also interpreted the theme in highly creative ways that were a great tribute to what the exhibitors must consider the avant garde and creative nature of Paris.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun post. I think your blog is terrific. Wishing you happiness
ReplyDeleteTufa Girl, it is just that the wind had a tendency to blow you skirt up, just sayin'
ReplyDeleteCarolyn, How sweet but not necessary for us to know exactly what the exhibit was about. We just make stuff up as we go along, so your photos were perfect.
Katherine Corner, You make me blush.
You are the third blogger that I know of that has posted photos from this show. There are certainly some really beautiful exhibits there, but some of these are just weird. That said, they DON'T remind me of you. :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your time away from the computer. :)
OK, you know how to make a girl feel useless: I am your official Paris field correspondent; AND I am about to set off for a trip to Philadelphia - and still Carolyn is the one who gets to contribute this!
ReplyDeleteAs a very small consolation, I have managed to take and post traditionally pretty pictures of actual springtime in Paris on my blog.
Now I'm off to hunt some more for that elusive French yard art...
landscapelover, we will all come over to see your lovely Paris in Spring time pictures. Too bad Carolyn scooped you though that is tough.
ReplyDeleteWhile you have been in Paris have you seen any of those man-eating socks? Because I would be worried about that.
What a fun post! I went to the Philly Flower Show too and only the Paris Underground was supposed to showcase avant-garde art. :) The rest was very spring like with fantastic exhibits (see some over at my blog). Glad to have found your blog!
ReplyDeleteI think I want the Sock of Death - does that make me a bad person?!
ReplyDeleteKate, I'll pop over to your blog and see the pretty spring like displays. Thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteJanet, If loving the Sock of Death is wrong, I don't want to be right.