University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 13. 1988
Living
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LAWN ART
Where the deer and flamingos play
By Cindy Harger
Kansan staff writer
From concrete statutes of antiques and furniture, the way a person decorates his yard gives the passerby a quick look into the personalities of the people around him.
Some people decorate their yards with concrete pieces simply on a whim, and because it can make people smile.
The Rev. Lewis Goolsby and his wife, Gladys, 410 Illinois St., giggle as they talk about their family of chickens that are arranged at the bed of a bird bath. A concrete squirrel climbs the base of the bird bath.
The Goodbsys bought the lawn decorations about two years ago while deciding how to landscape the yard.
"They were just so cute, and my mother had chickens," Mrs. Goolsbay said.
"Just like on the farm," said the Rev. Goolsby.
He said they enjoyed watching children sneak up on the bird bath to see if the squirrel was real.
Daryl Webb, manager at Pensa Garden Center and Greenhouse, 15th and 18th New york streets said statuettes of a pair of flowers have been selling well recently. He
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A "Sic-a-Mara" tree stands in a yard in the 900 block of Indiana Street.
said the concrete molds were popular because they added an informality to a structured garden.
"The flowers and shrubs change with the seasons while the statues stay the same all year." Webb said.
He said the price of statuettes ranged from a couple of dollars to several hundred.
However, Billy Kelch, 832 Maple St., finds his lawn art at antique sales.
Kelch said he liked the old, rugged tool so he has used antique farm tools like a pitchfork and milk cans as planters, and he has displayed smaller tools and antique knives.
"Everybody's got to have a hobby," Kelch said. "It attracts people's curiosity."
For Nebe and Betty Smart, 509 Lincoln St., lawn art was a finishing touch to a well-tended garden.
The Smart's front yard has neatly groomed flowebeds and bushes. Stone rabbits and ducks and small windmills sit in the bushes. In the middle of a lawn, a rectangular concrete statue, a large frog, a windmill a bird bath and a collection of colorful bird ornaments.
"A home without flowers looks bare," Betty Smart said. "The ducks and recoons are just kind of fun and add to it."
Lawn art can take many forms. These spiders made of farm equipment parts stand in a yard south of Lawrence.
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October 16, 1988
All proceeds benefit the Institute of Logopedics
Entry Fee: $9 (includes t-shirt)
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