Our travels last week brought us to Plattsburgh for a few days. Since we were staying with Barb, I was delighted to find this nice piece of garden art at the Hendersonville Garden Festival the weekend before we traveled to serve as a hostess gift. Barb has nice summer gardens and blue is her favorite color, so I thought this glass and china flower would be a perfect addition to her yard. I loved the petals on the milk glass larger dish and the electric blue of the custard dish that formed the center of the flower. I figured it was a real unique gift... certainly one of a kind!
When Barb saw us carrying in the piece of rebar that serves as a stem, she said, "You have your early birthday present upstairs... and it requires a rebar, too!"
So, here's my birthday present:
Barb picked a very similar flower for me! She knows I'm fond of sunflowers and yellow, so this combination suggested that. She also painted the rebar green, which is a nice touch. This little guy is actually six layers of china and glass. The wind will not carry this away!
While on the topic of yard art, here are a few other things I found in Barb's garden.
It took a lot of drinking, but her bottle tree is in full bloom. I'm not sure if the wine was all that great, I think it was selected based on the color of the bottle!
Here are two shots of her hummingbird feeder that was made by a North Carolina artist... a past birthday/hostess gift:
It's not the greatest picture because it is taken with a backdrop of clouds, but it's a nice rainbow glass wind chime which hangs from a planter tree attached to one of our deck posts. I love the frosted glass in all those shades of color and so far, I find the gentle tinkling of the chimes pleasant.
Next to it on another "branch" is a twirly copper butterfly shaped wind ornament that I bought last year in Santa Barbara.
