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Flickr photo by Ray Pempengco
I don't usually pick up hitchhikers, but I might make an exception for that guy!
I discovered him and a bunch of his crazy friends a few years ago when we took the kids out west on vacation. We'd been back from our French life for a year and realized that though our children had been all over France and through much of Europe, they'd never seen most of the USA!
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We hadn't put The Swetsville Zoo on the agenda, but when we saw the roadside signs, we had to check it out. It turned out to be a highlight of the trip!
It's in Timnath, Colorado, not far from Fort Collins, and it's the brainchild of Bill Swets, a retired dairy farmer. You can read more about his zoo here.
Take a look of some of the animals he crafted from spare parts.
There's a spider...
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Watch out kids!
And a rocket ship.
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A dinosaur...
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and an alien!
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Flickr photo by Paul 'Tuna' Turner
There's even an owl, though I wouldn't bother him if I were you.
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He's too busy conducting.
Bye little green guy!
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I enjoyed the visit!
I don't know about you, but seeing creations like that just fuels my creative fire!
I get so pumped up to see ordinary things not only saved from the landfill, but transformed into extraordinary treasures!
If you've been around a while, you've heard this before. It's exactly what I try to do in memoir--find the extraordinary in the everyday. No wonder I begged for this for my last birthday!
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Photo by Jeanette Janson
I've shown Father Time to you before, but I thought it fit this post, so here it is again. Lucky you! And lucky me! I get to look at it every day. Jeanette Janson made it. Go here, and see what other treasures she's cooked up!
And guess what? With all this junkyard creature talk, I had to pay a little visit to Etsy.com, just to see what junkyard creatures might be walking around over there.
Look what I found!
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I'm in LOVE! I found her here.
She's got a pretty price tag too, but maybe if I'm extra good...
Santa? Are you listening?
Have a Wonder-full Wednesday, everyone!
Love, Becky
12 comments:
I love junkyard art too! Whenever I go to a street art festival I spend more time at the junkyard art booth than any other!
Those are terrific
Ohhh, I just love all this stuff.
Cool Becky!!
I hope Santa comes through!!
Have a great day!
Rosemary
I think junk art is fantastic…
There was a house of a junk artist that I use to past all the time a few years back.
He always had the most wonderful things, so wonderful that I almost
drove my car off the road a few times because I couldn’t take my eyes off of his work..
I also enjoyed your post from yesterday and added a few new books to my winter list…
Louise
Becky, that was delightful! Swetsville Zoo looks like a fun place to visit!
Those are so awesome!
I hope Santa brings you what you asked for... we all need a little junkyard art. It's a reminder that it's possible for ANYTHING to become beautiful.
My sons would adore this post--and then beg me to help them build everything they saw in our own backyard!
Combining today's post with yesterday's one of Sarah Dessen's books has a main character that is a junk, etc., artist: The Truth About Forever. It's the first of her books that I read, and it is the one that got me interested in reading all the others.
Right up my alley!!!
How creative!!
This zoo is amazing! My kinda zoo!
xox
C
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