Bottle Trees

We took a long walk one day in a direction we don't normally go. Outside a house, I spied a bottle tree. These typically-southern trees are constructed to capture evil spirits during the night, trapping them inside the glass until the sun can destroy them in the morning. I want to make one! It might be a nice weekend project- once I get done with my paper-writing and polyurethane-ing my buffet.


The picture on the top is a bottle tree made with glass insulators- which I collect and haven't been able to figure out what to "do" with them. I normally recycle wine bottles, but some of them are so gorgeous (because I buy wine according to the shape of the bottle I like and/or the label!) that I hate to throw them out. The picture on the bottom is from Arkansas. This has given me some great ideas.

If you watched "Because of Winn-Dixie," the character of Gloria Dump, played by Cicely Tyson, has bottle trees in her back yard.