The Urban Pantheist

Last weekend Alexis and I removed this barberry bush. It was quite a task--I cut the thorny branches off with a lopper, the thicker central stalks required a saw. Alexis dug around the rootball with a shovel and I levered them out as best as I could with a five foot iron bar. It took a couple hours on Saturday evening and a couple more on Sunday morning.

As we dug we kept finding man-made objects--sardine cans and bits of rusty sheet metal. The ones arranged on the picnic table in the picture above were our favorite treasures. The figurine of the man and lamb made in Occupied Japan was found in two pieces--there are probably more. The other things are a perfume bottle, a cigarette case, a toy pistol, and a church key.

We had ourselves a little adventure at the Quincy Seashore. There were many opportunities for noticing things and making discoveries along the beach and in the salt marsh. We found this tiny shark, which I can't identify because I didn't at the time know what field markings to look for. I did a little research and I think next time I'll have a chance. It's probably a spiny dogfish.



There are eight more photographs, including another dead thing that might be a little harder to look at than this well-picked over fish. Standard dead animal warning. (It's not that bad, but I thought you should know). There's also a panorama that might push the edges of your page around.( Read more... )

It appears to be an object hand-molded from aluminum foil.

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