bric-a-brac
Definition: (noun) Small, usually ornamental objects valued for their antiquity, rarity, originality, or sentimental associations.
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Ceramic birdhouse
Here’s a triad of bric-a-brac’s that are hanging in the small woods behind our home. They were already present when we moved in last fall. The previous owner or perhaps even some of our closes neighbors might have hung them there.
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Dragonfly Windchimes
Perhaps we’ll discover if the birdhouses are used by any of the local small bird population in the next few months. There are many birds about, but I’ve also witnessed a Sparrow Hawk successfully hunting the area.
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A birdhouse, or perhaps a feeder. I need to look closer to be sure.
I like the idea of people placing things like bric-a-brac in nature. But, not so much with a shopping mall or housing development. Let us know if they do use the birdhouses.
Nope, no shopping malls outback. ;-)
Especially the first one looks very pleasing as an object in nature. It reminds me a bit of (I guess) Japanese influenced philosophy, seeking harmony not by excluding traces of human activity, but by embedding things that could become an integral part of their surrounding
I think the first object is the most homogenous with its surroundings, perhaps because the shape resembling somewhat a gourd. I don’t know if that was planned or simply an accident.
Hey – thanks for introducing me to a new term. Apparently we have a lot of bric-a-brac’s in our yard too – I just didn’t know there was a term for them! :-) Of course, I think we have way too many bric-a-brac’s taking up space INSIDE our house, sentimental or not. Perhaps a natural cycle after passing 50 you want to declutter instead of buying more things, almost to the point where I hate receiving gifts that take up space. But if they are outside, and also serve a dual purpose as a potential home for someone – all the better.
Hey, glad I could share a term that in the language itself is almost a bric-a-brac. I first hear the term when I was a small child, but it seems to come from victorian french. So, Bric-a-Brac and French Fries pretty much cover my childhood french exposure. :-)
It took a major life change to get rid of all those things taking up space in our old house, but we’re trying to keep it simple now that we’re back in a “normal” house.
Hope you’re having a good week!