Plastic Bottle Flowers

My neighbors have trimmed their yard in happy red and yellow flowers.

Front yard 2011
Windy Hill Rd

If you aren't exceeding the speed limit as you drive by, you will discover that my neighbors have ingeniously invented their flowers by painting the bottoms of plastic soda bottles red and yellow and planting them in the ground top-first.

This landscaping approach is so successful (pleasing to my neighbors) that it has been adopted by home and business owners up and down the road.

In case you are wondering why the tree is white at the bottom, farmers traditionally paint the lower trunks of fruit trees to protect the trunks from sunburn and to keep out the bugs. This explanation should suffice until you notice that the tree in the photo is a pine and not a fruit tree. Perhaps it just makes the yard look tidy if you paint the bottoms of the trees white.