AT&T

while on an early morning routine dog walk on the shoreline park in alameda, near the alameda ferry, bach spotted this beautiful drift wood, that turned out to be an old utility pole.  can you see the rusted pegs that were once used for workers to step on so they can climb the pole?  i imagined that this utility pole floated across the bay, from san francisco, having traveled at least a couple miles to make it to alameda eventually.  

now it lays in our nottingham drive backyard, reclaimed to be garden art.  there's so much texture in this piece, with its colorful dead and live organisms. 

reclaimed material is simply wonderful, a form of reincarnation.  this utility pole supported the electrical and telephone cable lines that provided electricity and telephone connection to a community, for a long period of time.  its now serving as another life being art. i think of the utilities we take for granted, and how civilization accepts the better and denies the worst, but forgets to truly appreciate the sources and resources that are provided.

Utility pole drifted and then found on the Alameda shores off the San Francisco Bay