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Related: About this forumThe Bottle Tree Ranch
One man's folk art. Located out in the Mojave Desert, on Route 66.
a rabbit hopped out to greet me.
A woman from Sweden, enjoying the place immensely...
Elmer, the artist, who's spent the past 14 years building this thing. He lives here, this is his land (2 acres)
I stayed until late afternoon to see the light shine through the colored glass.
There's 25 pictures in all I posted here, if you want to see more.
http://sowewent.blogspot.com/2014/10/elmers-bottle-tree-ranch.html
Hoyt
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littlemissmartypants
(22,417 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)When we go down to Highland to visit relatives we usually take 58 to 15, and pass the turnoff to 66 on our way. I think next time we will take 66 and check this place out. Thanks for posting these. Nice blog, too.
Tom Kitten
(7,339 posts)Oh you should go visit it, (and just drive on Rte 66 anyways) - it's not hard to get to, right outside Oro Grande, which has a few huge old antique shops you can spend hours in. Oro Grande is only about 5 miles from Victorville, the big city in those parts. And there's a lot of other things to see around there, too. Just down the road from the Bottle Tree Ranch is an old roadhouse, the Iron Hog. Did you ever see the movie "Erin Brockovich"? The bar scene towards the climax of the movie was filmed there, as was a scene in "Easy Rider". You really get a feeling of going back in time driving around there.
I fell in love with the area when I went there. I was intending to go to Calico that day but never made it, so I went back that way later. And there's so much I still have to see, like Joshua Tree National Park, Death Valley... I could go on!
I'm happy you like my blog. I got the idea to start it after I realized that sometimes I have too many pictures I'd like to share that could fit on one post. Sort of an outlet!
handmade34
(22,755 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)The photos are wonderful, especially that last one. Well worth the wait.