 |
 |
 |
 |
||
The Contributor's Garden was located as a sidewalk frontage to the Prowell's home in Sebastopol. It began in 1999 as a simple patch of grass, expanding each year since. Soon after it's first appearance, trinkets of all sorts began to appear, left off by passers by as a sort of offering. Quickly, the offerings came to dominate the garden, filling buckets and rotated in and out of the garden every few weeks. There were a few videos made of the garden by strangers over the years. |
The perspective of the garden from 1984 through 1998, when the transformation began on the far end beside the gray fence. A little of everything, changing every year. |
||||
 |
|
||||
| 1999. An unfettered compilation . . . transformed in its earliest beginnings to a simple patch of grass, tamed with pruning shears. | ||||
 |
||||
 |
|
||||
| Expanding in 2000 to a system of epoxied stone walls and terraces of elfin thyme and blue star. | ||||
 |
|
||||
| More walls in 2001. A front terrace added, fronting the concrete wall along the sidewalk. | ||||
 |
|
||||
By now, 2002, small offerings were being left. Everything from figurines to medallions. And thus the garden was titled The Contributor's Garden, with a small sign on the left. More walls on the right, experimenting with Scottish moss and baby tears, suited to the morning and evening fog of Sebastopol. |
||||
 |
|
||||
The concrete abutment puts the garden at about eye level to a 5 year-old. Something like the perspective we see here. |
||||
 |
|
||||
Barely visible looking through the arbor, the golfer in blue, and the red flag. |
||||
 |
|
||||
Jump to 2011, and the bonsais have matured considerably. Also a small ledge on the right with colored blocks made in the shop for the toddlers to play with. |
||||
 |
|
||||
2004 expansion. There were regular captions and stories posted in the garden. This3-page permit process appears below. The other, smaller post was regarding an invasion from Homeland Security. |
||||
 |
|
||||
Dozens of GI Joes as Homeland Security personnel invading the garden. |
||||
 |
|
||||
Dozens of GI Joes as Homeland Security personnel invading the garden. |
||||
 |
|
||||
2004 expansion. There were regular posts and stories posted in the garden. This one reads below. |
||||
 |
|
||||
Construction equipment, stacks of lumber, pallets of stone. |
||||
 |
|
||||
A sign appearing during the 2004 national elections |
||||
 |
|
||||
New, improved walls for the 2004 expansion. |
||||
 |
|
||||
Two of the early little animals left anonymously. Little scenes set up by children, and adults as well. |
||||
 |
|
||||
The new walls built, along with a circular stone centerpiece and a picket fence-line along the back. |
||||
 |
|
||||
The courtyard pillars and circular walk. And a small baboon. |
||||
 |
|
||||
Xmas 2004 |
||||
 |
|
||||
2004 |
||||
 |
|
||||
Another expansion. Blue star in bloom. |
||||
 |
|
||||
|
||||
 |
|
||||
|
||||
 |
|
||||
|
||||
 |
|
||||
One of several vases of collected trinkets. |
||||
 |
|
||||
Photographed at the eye level of a 4 year old. |
||||
 |
|
||||
The manifest destiny of a continuing expansionism. The walls gets shorter as the sidewalks works its way up the hill, and the age-accessible reach becomes younger and younger. This section is available to toddlers. |
||||
 |
|
||||
The last two expansions, left unfinished. |
||||
 |
|
||||
Concrete perimeter walls embedded with a medley of trinkets and shapes, topped with a gabled cedar cap. |
||||
 |
|
||||
|
||||
 |
|
||||
|
||||
 |
|
||||
The lower walled section, with a sandlot area along the sidewalk busy with animals galore. |
||||
 |
|
||||||
|
||||||
 |
 |
|||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
 |
 |
|||||
|
||||
"At the ballgame, eh? |
||||
 |
|
||||
|
||||
 |
|
||||
|
||||
 |
|
||||
|
||||
 |
1. 8 0 0 . 4 6 6 . 1 8 5 0 (PST)
|
SHIPPING TO ALL 50 STATES |
1 . 7 0 7 . 8 6 1 . 3 4 0 9 (FAX)
|
| Privacy | ||
Unless otherwise noted, products appearing on this site are the sole design rights of Charles & Ben Prowell. |
||
|---|---|---|
|
||
