Saturday, June 12, 2010

IN MEMORIAM

One of the highlights of driving up and down Highway 97 in Oregon, near the town of Shaniko, was to catch a glimpse of "the tree of shoes". I never got tired of searching out the tree as we passed by, looking to see the latest batch of shoes and sandals that had been tossed onto it's branches, and then quickly looking to my right to see if any bras had been added to the tree of bras across the highway.Sadly, today as we passed by where the tree should have been, proudly displaying hundreds of different types and sizes of shoes, including Craig's flip flops from last summer, all that was there was a pile of ashes and a burnt tree trunk. Obviously it was intentionally set on fire, as nothing surrounding it had been burnt. Curses to the person or persons who did this cruel act of vandalism and let's hope Karma comes back to give them a swift kick in the butt, with steel toed boots, and may they never find another pair of shoes that don't pinch or cause them blisters!

RIP Tree of Shoes.....you will be missed.

6 comments:

Chris said...

There are some very SAD people out there!

Barb said...

Why are there so many mean people on this earth? Hope they catch whoever burnt the shoe tree.

all things bradbury said...

i am so sad & disappointed to hear this! that was our favorite thing to watch for when we were on that route too. often, on other trips, we'd spot a knarly old tree & think it would make a good shoe tree but none will ever replace the original. who would do such a thing?? RIP shoe tree!

Anonymous said...

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all things bradbury said...

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Mom said...

My their shoes be too tight and always give them blisters.

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