Gardens, Fountains, and Sculptures - pics from your rides.

[Art Deco]

I'll start with our front garden, but city dwellers will ride past much nicer gardens than I do. How about posting a few pics if you can?View attachment 60053View attachment 60054View attachment 60082

Sorry to leave this thread so bare . Need some fall foliage pics. Any one have some fall garden scenes ? Pumkins and Ghosts?

 

[Art Deco]

So I changed the name of the thread to include sculptures and fountains because the first two responses were actually sculptures not gardens. And it's much easier to change a title than keep an EBR thread on topic. But the hope is that people will post something "artsy" that they like to ride by.
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In the spirit of bowing to the inevitable, this little guy is a crosspost from the wierd & eyecatching pics thread.The best rust bucket(metal) sculpture. A memorial to a local drummer in his brothers front yard. The story is that the drummer was the inspiration for Jim Hanson's Amimal character. All made from scrap ... the cymbals are hubcaps , the drums are chip tins, the hair is electric wire, etc.

After I changed the name of this thread to include fountains and sculptures, the university turned off the only water fountain garden in riding distance. Untill today.

 

[Sierratim]

Some historic garden 'art' from my afternoon loop ride yesterday. Our evenings are in 30's now but the days are still warm so I waited for comfortable temps and rode in shorts and closed toed sandals, though I did wear a light cycling jacket. Doesn't look like any 'frost on the pumkin' this year!

Some of you might recognize this as a pneumatic rock drill (who wouldn't?)... Even a bit of fall color!

On All Hallows Eve this wagon will be driven by a headless horseman...

This ore cart would have been pulled by mules that lived 1/2 their lives underground, just like the miners, though the miners got to go home after their 12 hour shifts. The mules stayed in the mines 6 months at a time and were rotated with surface teams. The pick axe has a short handle to make it easier to swing in the mines.

 

[6zfshdb]

Various sculptures from this seasons rides in the state of Pennsylvania.


Some fall color.

 

[Art Deco]

Went out looking for Christmas displays on my last ride, and didn't find much. The white house looks good, though, and Daniel Boone is sporting a Santa Claus hat as well as a Covid mask. It's still 2020, after all.

 

[FlatSix911]

A few interesting pieces of local outdoor art.

 

[Art Deco]

A few interesting pieces of local outdoor art.

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I like the "horse of a differnt color". But it needs a garland or a a bell ..

 

[Art Deco]

Since noone else seemed to be doing much, I decorated my back yard spruce tree. The Rockefeller Center it's not, but still a Christmas tree.

 

[FlatSix911]

I like the "horse of a differnt color". But it needs a garland or a a bell ..

Agreed... I'll see if I can work on that next week.

 

[FlatSix911]

A few more from my Carmel ride.

 

[Art Deco]

A few more from my Carmel ride.

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Looks like solar panels run the pump for the fountain.

 

[FlatSix911]

Looks like solar panels run the pump for the fountain.

Interesting... I think it is just a shadow but will check it out.

 

[Sierratim]

A few more from my Carmel ride.

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Second pic at Mission Carmel? Resting place of Saint Junípero Serra as I recall.

 

[FlatSix911]

Second pic at Mission Carmel? Resting place of Saint Junípero Serra as I recall.

Correct... Unfortunately now closed to visitors due to Covid-19.

 

[Sierratim]

A horse drawn hay mower now as yard art;

About 1/2 way between Grass Valley and Penn Valley on Bitney Springs Road.

 

[Art Deco]

A horse drawn hay mower now as yard art;
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About 1/2 way between Grass Valley and Penn Valley on Bitney Springs Road.

There is an Amish farm near me by the highway that still uses one of those. With a new and better seat.

 

[6zfshdb]

A horse drawn hay mower now as yard art;
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About 1/2 way between Grass Valley and Penn Valley on Bitney Springs Road.

Add an E-kit and it would be good to go again!

 

[RandallS]

From friday. Along the Bow River in Calgary.

 

[Sierratim]

From friday. Along the Bow River in Calgary.

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A wind vane?

 

[RandallS]

A wind vane?

No idea - as it didn't appear to move.
Based on some of the public arts installations in this city over the last number of years, that was probably supposed to be a hippopotamus...
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