Location Taken: Arcadia, Michigan
Time Taken: January 2011
My Grandma has a fondness for garden sculptures. There’s a large number of them dotting her yard and garden, all tasteful if peculiar.
This particular one is on her deck. It’s metal and has long thin wires with bowl-like shapes on the end. It moves when shifted, such as in strong winds, and the bowl heads clink softly against each other.
In the winter, the heavy snows come to this part of the world, and the upward facing bowls get filled. As the snow accumulates, the heads slowly bend down on their wires from the weight. Then they tip just far enough, and the snow falls out. The bowl rises again, ready to collect more snow.
It’s a beautiful snow, too. The lake effect snow fed from Lake Michigan comes in large, fluffy flakes, wet but not soggy. It’s a magnificent packing snow, perfect for snowballs. And it catches and holds on to what it falls on, so every pine bough is laden with a white coat. It was marvelous to play in as a child, and gorgeous to look at as an adult.
And it catches the low winter sunlight beautifully.
