This past Sunday, a television station in Idaho ran a piece about a unique canoe sculpture that’s being built there. It’s by Christopher Fennell, who is originally from Florida and then Georgia, but now lives here in Alabama — it wasn’t until today that I realized we have seen other pieces by him. This temporary one was at the Magic City Art Connection in 2009:
This is in the western side of B’ham (Cotton Ave & 9th St SW). He made it from wood and tin roofing of a 100-year-old home in Nectar. House flower:
Every time I hear something about Nectar, I think about the covered bridge they used to have there (1932 – 1993) that was 385′ long and the seventh-longest covered bridge in the world. Here’s how the site looked when we were passing through there in 2007. You can still see the three pillars:
