We have begun filling up the Bottle Tree our friend Jack Macmillan made for us last Fall. Until two weeks ago, it was surrounded by a mountain of snow, we couldn’t reach it. It’s beginning to look like a bottle tree. It is believed that Bottle Trees were first used in the Congo to ward off evil spirits and they were first brought to America by slaves. They are more popular in the South than in the Northeast, but there are a few around.

The bottles are supposed to catch the wind, and the whistling sound scares off the spirits. Deer, too, I think. So far, so good.