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June 27, 2011

A fish out of water

 

Photo credit: Gary Mihoces
When Ann Wallace Riefe's father, Tom Wallace, offered to make a sculpture for her garden, she was pleased, curious and somewhat circumspect.

 

What exactly did he have in mind?  A garden nome? A garden angel? An ornate birdbath?

How about an aluminum fish tail?

Tom and Ann, Annapolis residents, are both avid gardeners and Ann had envied the sculptures in her father's garden.

An employee for C&P Telephone for 40 years, Tom had always dabbled in art and in retirement started taking sculpture classes at Anne Arundel Community College.

The fish tail is made of the aluminum sheeting that is used on roofs and the scales are rivited to a metal frame in a cement block. Tom promised that there are more rivets in the sculpture than there are in the Brooklyn Bridge.

He chose the theme, which looks to me like a giant shrimp, because Ann's husband, Geoff, loves seafood. I was looking around for a giant vad of cocktail sauce.

By the way, sushi was served at the unveiling....

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About Susan Reimer
Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.
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