Driftwood - Part 2

Willow, Holly is indeed lucky! That sculpture is at Burpee's Fordhook Farm here in Southeastern Pa.

Holly, how great that you got a photo of the blue bird. Love those kind of gifts.

Willow, your idea sounds like fun. The birds will love the babbling brook. Get your camera set up and sit back and watch.

I still have a few items I have to do for Christmas presents. Of course, I have to put photos together before I can order calendars so I must do nothing else tomorrow. Have a great evening. Wish me luck. Suppose to have rain/snow tomorrow so that will be reason enough to stay inside.

Great sculpture .

Willowwind - you are not alone. I, too, thought it was frozen water! Great sculpture, stormy!

Love the idea of the BBQ/fountain!

You guys are right I do have some very wonderful and talented men. Dear hubby Ric and both my sons Josh and Jamie are really handy. They all have an artistic eye as well and quite often add ideas and details to my projects. I can get them to fix or make almost anything if I'm willing to wait. We have a lot of unfinished projects though and Boy are they hoarders. LOL
Willow that does sound like a great idea. You might want to try finding something flat to run the water thru at the top to get a sheet of water comming down over the rocks. Or maybe several copper tubes or a tube that lays along the top with several holes so you have water comming down at different points along the rock. Depending on how much work you want to put into it you could add a small pond at the base and make another tier of water flowing from the sink into a lower level. Add some potted plants and it will be lovely.
Stormy, Love that statue. I must go visit Burpee's Fordhook Farm this summer. You have such great pics from there.

I wish my son lived closer because he is truly a gardener at heart too, and loves projects. Unfortunately he's going back to school, and will probably have several more years if he gets into the program he wants, so he won't even have time for much for a good while. Actually, that's not unfortunate...just for me! I do have a very gifted son-in-law though, so may have to get him involved in some of these things.

Holly thanks for the ideas. I might use the tube with several holes at the top as I want just a gentle flow, but wider than what a single dripping tube would give. There is a good spot at the base of the structure where a small pool could be, and that might be pretty with the sheet effect a flat surface would provide. H-m-m-m...great ideas to fall asleep contemplating.

One of the things that I really like about that sculpture, is it's placement. It appears that it and the tree are being swept along the same windy course and they seem to mirror each other's motion.

Placed into another setting, I'm not sure that I would love it as much.

Snow buried driftwood. LOL

That looks familiar .Stormes are nothing to sneeze at but leave such beauty

How beautiful HollyAnn. Those of you back East have really had a big one. It really looks like Christmas for sure, but I know it's probably hard to get around. Thanks for sharing the pretty part.

Willow

We had about 16-18 inches at our house. I know there are some areas with almost 2ft. Even though I know it is a hardship for many I still love when it snows. It is just beautiful.

How lovely, HollyAnn. The driftwood still stands out in the photo. Ours is totally covered. The drifts have been like pieces of sculpture in this blizzard.

Thism is a charming wreath

ge that is such a great pic. Are those your birds?

Ge, that's a great photo.

I'm a cat person
no birds here.
The pic was borrowed from the web.

That is so great. Those are absolutely beautiful birds. Thanks for the bright picture for the morning. Very gloomy here. Having a blizzard of tree leaves.

I was in another discussion and remembered this thread. I finally have gotten all my pictures back. They aren't all back in their files yet but at least I have them.
Here are a few pictures from Jekyll Island, Georgia. This is Driftwood beach. These pieces are just huge.

There were tons of them. I did pick up a few small pieces.

Oh Holly, That's only about a 12 hour drive. Are you sure you don't want to hitch up the trailer and go back for some?

LOL Stormy, You should see the Live Oak Trees on that island, too.
Ric and I had the nicest day just sitting on that beach. It's on the inlet and as you walk farther down the beach and around the curve you see fewer and fewer pieces of driftwood and finally you come to this empty beach. There is a salt marsh behind the beach and the water rushes out of the salt marsh across the beach to the ocean. I've never seen anything like it. We stayed out on the beach till the tide came in so high that there wasn't hardly any beach. Then we went back to the camp ground and put up the tent and then went out and had dinner. On the way back to the camp ground we went back to the beach to see how high the water had gotten. It was pretty neat the ocean was all the way back into the salt marsh. There was this bridge that we walked across earlier in the day when the salt marsh was emptying back into the ocean and then at night the water was flowing the opposite direction back into the marsh.

Holly, The Low Country is one of my favorite places in the US. I know of what you speak. Jekyll, Edisto, Sullivan, Beaufort, all places of exceptional beauty and wonderful culture. The moss in the Oaks, just glorius. I take my shrimp with grits, if you please!

Talking about Shrimp there were two men with a long net catching shrimp while we were there. One man would walk out in to the water and stand in shoulder deep water with one end of the net. He would be out there at least a 1/2 hr or more then they would walk the net in and pull the shrimp and fish out of the net then the other man would go out and stand in the water and they would repeat the process. The day we were there that water was cold really cold I wouldn't get in it and no one else was in the water either. There was a pretty strong current going thru there too. They did that over and over all day until it was too dark to see. What a way to make a living.

Oh, Holly! What gorgeous pictures and great pieces of driftwood. I love them, as you'd expect.

We haven't been going to the beach too often this winter since it's been colder than normal - so much for global warming!

Holly, I've read a lot about those shrimpers, but never really stayed around to watch them work. A lot of those guys are 10th generation shrimpers and they still do it the old way. I don't think there are any that still use the nets by hand in the gulf, just in the low country.