Went junkyarding yesterday, with an informal group called Junk Yard Dawgs. First junk yard was well organized- a pile of this over here, a pile of that over there, pick it and bring to the scale to be weighted. I got several gears, for their sculptural quality, and two aluminum pots to be repurposed as flowers planters. Gears are heavy AF! The second yard along La Pana was enormous, slightly stinky and not well organized, did not buy anything, but the sheer size and amount of what we human discard was... impressive. Well, at least it's being recycled.. Close to the entrance there was a little discarded metal cabin with the sign "guardia". It would make a very elegant outhouse, but I have indoor plumbing. Next we stopped at a stone yard, because we were curious. They had stone garden lanterns and little temples, stone benches, several stone bowls ( I think I found a sink f0r my bathroom renovation), a HUGE stone bowl that would make a beautiful fountain, and a Big Dick. Big Dick was standing proudly on a pedestal, complete with the balls; it's made of marble and damn heavy. I wonder who/what is on the market for a Big Dick. Can he bestow fertility on a garden, or something? Or would he go to one of the, ahem, "motels" along La Pana?
We also visited two antiques stores, sadly intricately carved doors (probably belonging to a church before) I liked were FAR out of my $ range, and also size range.
I bought a little bronze ring because it looked sad and abandoned in the vitrine.
Next trip of the Junk Yard Dawgs to some mythical junk yard in Quito, apparently Really BIG. I need more gears of all sizes to make a garden totem.
photos by Susan B., a friend
