“My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.” (Dr. Seuss) |
So, we were driving around Northville yesterday, minding our own business (okay, not really–we were gawking at big, beautiful, expensive houses), when we turned down a suburban cul-de-sac and saw this! What on earth was it–a Dr. Seuss bird? Very cool, but completely random to place in your front yard. I snapped a quick picture, then slowly realized just as Brad turned the car around and said exactly what I didn’t notice in the first place: it wasn’t a statue–it was a tree stump. Someone cut a huge Dr. Seuss-bird-stork-thing into a tree stump and it was awesome. What a great idea, to make art out of something that otherwise would take boatloads of stress and manpower to dig up. My kind of thinking.
And guess what? A street or two over, there were more. Dogs, bears, mountain men . . . all artistically chiseled out of lumber-turned-too-tall.
So, who did it? I originally guessed that whoever lived at the first house was just handy with a chainsaw and a knife. Upon seeing these things at two or three other houses, however, I began to think that the neighbors were either really good buddies, or someone in the area was making a killing off of re-purposing the eyesores we call stumps.
I did a Google search to see what I could find–and the only thing that looked similar was an image search thumbnail that linked to a few photos of a statue in a Northville dog park. Same style, it appeared. Made of wood, so same material. Same artist? Not sure, but I would think that anything of the contrary would be an incredibly big coincidence.