Omen?
As the New Year unfolded Tuesday, with everyone vivisecting goats, reading tea leaves and consulting their Farmers’ Almanacs to try to see what the new year would bring, I was confronted with this ominous portent through my bathroom window as I stood passing my final 2007 imbibations into the first frigid light of 2008:
A bike hanging from a cherry tree in one of the back yards behind us. I mean, I’ve never even seen any people back there in the last 25 years. Whatever this portends, I’m going to keep presuming that its message is not directed at me. Hesitantly, I looked beyond the tree to the house’s foundation, thinking I might see something like this:
But, no, there was only the bike.
Two short weeks makes work a little crazy, especially when so many of my clients are in a frenzy of year-end tasks. Instead of being able to tiptoe quietly into 2008, Wednesday slapped my right upside the head with a flurry of phone calls from people printing W2s, doing year-end procedures and trying to get everything sequenced properly. It’s always an adventure. I guess I shouldn’t have goofed off so assiduously during the long weekend.
I dunno. You better get a shaman or somebody out there to read the meaning of the Tree Bike.
Tree Bike. Weird message for the new year. I like Kathyr’s idea, get a shaman. Good luck on the new year tax rush.
How odd!
Geez, Phil. Creepy like the Blair Witch Project.
Say, have you seen where I put my bike?
Maybe it was in the process of morphing into this:
http://tinyurl.com/2heo64
Or an incipient art project inspired by this:
http://www.gozino.net/post_images/extra_thumbs/3217_tree_bike.jpg
Maybe it was in the process of morphing into this:
http://tinyurl.com/2heo64
Or an art project like this one in process:
http://www.gozino.net/post_images/extra_thumbs/3217_tree_bike.jpg
(I am so telling my kid he needs to do this in one of the trees outside his hostel — maybe another one with a snowboard as well!)
Comment spam?? So sorry, Phil — various blog platforms seem to be down on me of late. I’ll try not to do that again. Just checking in to see what you have to say about tomorrow’s game. I’ll be rooting for you guys!