Comments on: Harvest Art

By: Bettina

Bettina — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:02:38 +0000

Ha! I also love real,natural decorations. I hate the plastic crap, too.
Last weekend we had some friends come over for coffee and cake and I decorated the table with a willow basket, filled with red elstar apples from the garden, some red vines and berries and walnuts around. On the table an old blue/white dishcloth from my grand-grandmother with an edging of real handmade bobbin lace.

The apples were eaten afterwards!

Only my little son looked at the georgeous decoration with candles lit and asked shyly:
Mum, has someone died?

By: Shelley Burbank

Shelley Burbank — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:46:59 +0000

I just love the beautiful photo of the peppers! Like you, I think eggplants are gorgeous. I bought some at the farmer’s market and put them on an antique cake stand for a centerpiece last week. Flowers are nice, but veggies have a unique beauty all their own. Nice article.

By: DennisP

DennisP — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:51:47 +0000

And plastic pumpkins and plastic reindeer and plastic Santa Clauses.

By: Teresa Sue Hoke-House

Teresa Sue Hoke-House — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:09:04 +0000

Love your article Gene. Yes, your wife is a true artist. Nothing can come up with the colors and textures of Mother Nature! I hate plastic!!! I have resisted the temptation for years to decorate with plastic decorations, flowers, wreaths and such. I’d just as soon have a humble “real” vine that grew up on the porch, that I twisted together into a wreath, than that brightly berried plastic junk. I refuse to buy anything, no matter how “cute”, that is made from plastic or resin. Just like I refuse to eat “food” that is pre-made/mixed, I refuse to be surrounded by a bunch of fake plastic junk. I’m a real person and I want real food and materials around me. That goes for plastic decking too! If you don’t want a wood deck and the work it entails, lay stone! Oh, and can you leave out that hideous plastic house siding…..I really should go have another cup of tea and calm down, lol!

By: DavidZ

DavidZ — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:38:25 +0000

Gene,

Oh yes, I have seen them because unfortunately, I’m not able to drive with my eyes closed. And if I could, you can bet that someone would spot me with their plastic binoculars and turn me in to the man. There’s no getting around it short of some kind of cosmic burst of sanity impacting the earth from outer space.

But maybe I’m being too negative about the whole thing. I’m kind of thinking that maybe the next time I take one of my animals to be processed, I could get ahold of one of those plastic cows and bring it in to be butchered as well. Do you suppose there might be more there than we’re giving credit for? Or perhaps a better way of saying it…perhaps we’re barking up the wrong plastic tree.

By: Gene Logsdon

Gene Logsdon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:04:50 +0000

Yes, yes, David. And have you noticed how many yards are full of plastic birds and plastic chickens and plastic pigs and plastic deer and plastic flowers and even so help me, plastic cows.

By: DavidZ

DavidZ — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:42:23 +0000

Gene,

Well I beg to differ, my friend…we don’t need articles about plastic corn shocks, we need the real thing. Who will sound the call for future generations if not us? We must be strong and not cease our efforts until the meadows and leas are filled with little plastic bobble-headed bovines burping happily while gobbling down gobs of yellow plastic kernels, hurled into their pastures (enclosed by plastic rails) with plastic shovels. Mmmm, I’m already drooling at the thought of a p-bone steak.

I dare say that when we reach this ultimate plateau, the plastic corn shocks will have taken care of themselves, as well as anything we might write about them. I totally agree with you about the importance of titles. In this case the only title that would suffice, it seems to me, is “Move over: reality in the way of plastic”.