More Memorial Day
A Bottle Arbor in Mike's Mom's Garden where we had Dinner this Memorial Day
Marylin's Garden: A Water Bird in the Fish Pond
Closer
A Bunny Amid the Groundcover
At the cemetery:
Sweet Memorials on Dear Mona's Grave Stone
An old headstone inscribed in Swedish which is common on the older stones as well as some newer stones
A group of sandstone headstones which is what I told Mike would be fine with me!
Sandstone HeadstoneThese also had metal markers with names and dates.
An inscription on a Kansas cowboy's Gravestone
Metal figures on another cowboy's grave
An inscription on a Kansas cowboy's Gravestone
Metal figures on another cowboy's grave
Comments
How did they make it, please? I think I might "need" one. :-)
I'm not sure how the bottles are kept in place. I will find out, though! Of course the wooden arbor should be no problem for Jonathan?
Neat cowboy's too.
The bottles were secured by drilling into the Arbor (at an angle, I'm assuming) and inserting dowel rods (different sizes if needed depending on bottle opening) then the bottles were just stuck onto the dowel rods.
Some thrift shops sell old bottles. They don't have to be old though. If you know someone who drinks wine, or you ever do, some wine bottles are nicely colored glass. There are many non-alchohol sport type drinks these days too. I've not paid much attention to the bottles, but maybe this is an idea.
And of course you wouldn't have to make an arbor. My Mom-in-law said the original idea was more of a "tree" with only one post.
I do hope this helps!
My apologies for hijacking your beautiful Memorial Day blog with my questions about the bottle arbor. I thought the other pictures were touching and lovely; I was just a wee bit distracted by the arbor.
(Could your friend's son be taught to put the bottles back on the arbor or take only one or take none?)