Friday Shoot out - Yard Objects

Thanks to Noe Noe girl for choosing the topic for this week - yard objects.

My house has only had a fence around it for a couple of years. Before that the little house just sat in the middle of a cow paddock. I set out to create what I call a "barely contained wilderness" and have succeeded in more ways than one. Most of my yard objects are things I've scavenged from around the farm, bits of old trees I've dragged home, bits of wood I thought were "interesting", rocks I've picked up here and there. I wanted my yard to sit comfortably in its rural surroundings and not compete in any way with the beauty of my mountains.

So I'll start off with things you will find in my yard:

A barbeque, table and chairs, a few pots, a few bricks and a water tank. Yeah, a water tank but it's one of those things that's a bit difficult to move, so there it stays

Shells on a stick in front of one of my "interesting" bits of wood
with the little pot my granddaughter likes to stick cuttings
into in the foreground.

There are gifts from my grandchildren

Bits of old machinery

Bar bells I found under the house when I moved in

I love my bits of wood


shells and somewhere for spiders

and there's bound to be a couple of fairies

Around the back of the house there is a young passionfruit vine
creeping over an old walker and the body part of an old bicycle .

Now it is starting to climb up the wall through the wheels from the bike.

(What am I going to do when it grows further??)

I'd love to have a wagon wheel like these I spotted during the week as I travelled to and from work.

I stopped to take a photo of the bird bath

and nearly missed this in

an overgrown corner of a garden on the other side of the road.

I'm envious of this old mower blade







and liked this cute little bird house








This imaginative gardener also utilises what comes to hand

Loved this!

and finally....

duck friendly yard object

I hope everyone else had as much fun with this topic as I did. Can't wait to see what others came up with!