Thursday, May 24, 2012

Practicality

I came upon this scene the other day. If I was one of my fine feathered friends, I would be scratching my head approaching this one. It looks cool and enticing but not very practical. Enticing but not practical. I usually come across a couple of these type items a day in my travels. I think we all do. Sometimes, I just shake my head. At other times, I have to stop and marvel a bit, maybe wonder where this world will be in another 100 years. Grampa was a practical man. A good deal of his world revolved around his workshop in his cellar, where everything was in its place and all items were there for a reason. I like to think I'm a bit of a practical man myself, but I've got some work to do. I better get busy!

16 comments:

  1. I like it, a novel approach to a bird house. Hope it serves its purpose.

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  2. du pop art pour les oiseaux, j'adore

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  3. If I were a bird, I would most certainly take up residence there.

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  4. Very much like humans, sometimes we give up comfort for appearances. It's a great birdhouse with lots of style@

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  5. practical, perhaps, but you also have a fair measure of whimsy to you, birdman.

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  6. It reminds me of some very strange mailboxes I have captured. Just weirdly interesting. Great find!

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  7. I like this; it is creative and unusual! Once and then it is good to appreciate impractical things...

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  8. this one will attract all the progressive hipster birds.

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  9. It is like a lot of modern designs - look good but don't function very well - e.g. Starck orange squeezer!

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  10. Is this what a drunk bird might see?

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  11. I like it, so might sparrows. But for different reasons. The sparrows would probably admire its shape and form, whereas I see a beautiful dwelling!

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  12. A birdhouse made of moldy swiss cheese? The arrow pointing the way to Timothy Leary's old house?

    My gut says that I'm pessimistic about the state of the world in a hundred years. My head says that the accuracy of predictions of the future is low. We won't be here to find out.

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  13. This is a fine bird house . . . for Portland, Maine, four hours away from here! Down here, we have restrictive zoning . . .

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  14. That is one very funky birdhouse, I like it a lot!!

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