No No, not that kind of shoe tree.
This kind of shoe tree.
So here we are driving down U.S. Highway 50 East of Reno, Nevada (claims to be the loneliest road in America, nope not by a long shot) and there seems to be something growing on a cottonwood tree up the road. There are dang few tree out there. More people in fact than trees. So, what was this.
A shoe tree. Why? What? Huh!.
Ok, there are hundreds of pairs of shoes tied together by their laces and hung in the tree.
But...why?
And the tree on Highway 50 wasn't the only one. We ran across this one at Ravendale, California. Checking the web, we find that these trees are growing all over the place. So far I've found references to shoe trees in the UK, Australia, and the Moon.
So what is the deal?
Come on, clue me in. Naw, not the B.S. stuff. All I want is a true why. Oh yes, and when will the movie come out.
4 comments:
That's just plumb weird.
"All I want is a true why." They are closely linked to crop circles. The aliens, thinking to return in next millenia, will require foot gear, so they plant
shoe tree seeds. ..just a guess...
I have no answers, but I have links:
First, on shoe trees:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.asp
And second, did you see the mysterious shoes that recently appeared in Florida?
http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/834846.html
Post-colonial, post-industrial efforts to domesticate an enveloping "wilderness" under an ineffably humbling big sky.
The wild "West" has yet to disappear in fact or imagination.
After the first "searcher," though, it becomes cultic. After enough of that, it becomes community installation art.
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