This is not art

In older vineyards, some of the vines die every year. The growers dig up the dead trunks during the pruning season and cart them off. They're very good for burning, especially in the bbq. Before they can all get taken away, Callie will bring one or two home from her walk nearly every day. We have a huge stack of dead grape vine trunks out back.

Five Salvetat bottles and one other brand I don't recognize protecting newly planted replacement vines.

In place of the missing vines, the growers will often plant new young vines. This is happening now, in spring. Many of the growers around us use old plastic water bottles to protect the young transplants. It's funny looking, but it does the job.

An added bonus is that I get to see what brands of bottled water the vintners drink.