Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Bottle Tree Ranch

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   Elmer Long’s interest in bottle collecting started when he was a boy, taking road trips with his father and exploring old dumps along the way. Eventually he had a large collection of bottles and other junk. The bottle farm was born when he inherited his father’s bottle collection and wanted a way to display everything.

  Don’t forget to look up to see all of the stuff at the top of each of the trees!
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  The ground is sandy but it’s possible to maneuver a wheelchair through most of the bottle forest.

There’s enough room on the side of the road for RV parking but go slowly because it has a hump.   Ranch
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4 comments:

  1. I lv bottle trees...such a sweet, simple beauty!!! Once at our old country home we hit a trash dump planting a garden...three of the most beatiful bottles...beats plastic eh?!!!!!

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    1. The bottles were really pretty with the sun shining through. I think that a lot of them are really old, maybe from the early 1900s because his dad was finding them in trash piles in the 1950s.

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  2. I lv bottle trees...such a sweet, simple beauty!!! Once at our old country home we hit a trash dump planting a garden...three of the most beatiful bottles...beats plastic eh?!!!!!

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  3. I have always liked bottle trees but can never find the line between artsy-cool and just tacky!

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