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Monday, October 06, 2003

No Animals Were Harmed... As we walked between Phinney Ridge and Greenlake Friday afternoon, this piece of amateur topiary loomed on the horizon.  I'm not sure where I was looking, but I was about to walk right by it when my wife grabbed me and pointed it out. Just as I reached for my camera and stepped back for a better angle, the property owner pulled up to the curb and hailed me.  He regaled us with the years-long struggle to hack this out of the urban wilderness.  My wife asked how the idea had occurred to him, and he said he was just looking at the bush and saw it in there, like Michaelangelo  visualized exquisite shapes in the chunks of rock before him. He had had his side done for quite some time, he said, before he convinced his neighbor (the bush is right on the property line) to complete the work on his side. The result is an African elephant on this side... 9:46:28 PM    Speak to me! []  TrackBack  []

...and an Asian/Indian elephant on the neighbor's side. We regarded the fauna with newly-minted caution, Hansel-and-Gretel-like, for the rest of the walk, but saw no other such transmogrifications of nature. 9:45:25 PM    Speak to me! []  TrackBack  []