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