Monday Musing

Scarecrow.  Door County, Wisconsin.  I drove past this house and then decided to come back and have a better look.  A whimsical little vignette.

I'm in search of the perfect scarecrow, but have yet to find the right one.  This one was cute from the Evanston Garden Walk a few years ago.  I have weeping spruces.  This could work.

One year, my scarecrow wore this shirt with the slogan, "Enough is just a Little Bit More," a slogan I spotted on a bench in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.  But what the heck does that mean?  Just when you think you have enough it's actually more than you need?  I still need a few more scarecrows.

Here's a potential scarecrow.  This is Mad Mom from the Frederik Meijer Sculpture Gardens in Michigan.  You have to see that place--great gardens, sculptures and live music of all sorts.  Wonderful.

This scarecrow watched over the basil patch, here going to seed one fall.  It's too bad this scarecrow can't scare off basil blight.

This is Debbie Rea's wonderful scarecrow in her lovely, organized vegetable garden.  Not a crow around but plenty of herbs and veggies.

My brother Greg makes an AWESOME scarecrow but he doesn't really want to be out there for more than 10 minutes.  Besides, he has his own pepper patch -- several hundred hot peppers from around the world -- that he nurtures.  And he even overwinters a few pepper plants indoors each year.

Another year in our garden.  Standing guard over the Brassicas for late fall harvest.  Cabbage butterflies  ignored it.  

Evanston Garden Walk school garden.  The kids at this elementary school did a great job designing the scarecrows.

How clever---a face made from a colander filled with ornamental fruit.

 

This would be the ultimate scarecrow.  A gigantic horse.  My Spouse is checking out its knee.  How did the Frederick Meijer Gardens ever get this on the property.   No horsing around.