In the rather run-down area behind the college where I have seen the Broad-winged Hawks (see a previous post) there are some strange goings-on. It is an overgrown place with dumpsters, untended garden plots and an apiary. There is also a couple of "figures". One is of a kneeling woman crafted out of chicken wire and what looks like fabric and plaster (and possibly human hair stuffing), and the other is a tall, black, long-eared figure leaning casually on a tree with a shopping cart nearby.
It was the kneeling woman who first caught my attention. The area is adjacent to a grave yard with various statuary so at first I thought "she" was a statue. Then on closer examination I saw how she was fashioned and it intrigued me. I wondered who had made her and why.
I was going almost every day and although I never saw anyone, I would notice changes in the area. One day I thought she was gone and then I saw her in a rocking chair. Someone had brought the chair and put her in it.
On another day the chair had been turned around giving her a new view of the area. That was a breezy day and as I viewed her from a distance, the wind lifted a scrap of the fabric on her side and it looked like she was lifting her arm (as though she were adjusting a shawl or reaching for something). I have to say it startled me!
Then, a day or so later, the chair was empty and she lay smashed on the ground. It felt like finding the body of a murder victim.
All the other strange things (as shown below) took on a sinister aspect.
Ceramic fertility figure?
Scarecrow?
These two small structures were found hanging from branches nearby.
A fallen tree has silken threads wound around several of its branches.
All of it is rather strange. I still go there but certainly only in broad daylight.
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