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Braided Wind Chime

Fish Wind Chime
Fish Wind Chime

A few days of high & gusty winds braided the cords of the aluminum fish school wind chime hanging over the end of the patio:

It’s obviously an old, much-repaired relic.

My Shop Assistant added those blue fins many years ago, quite some time after she and a friend lost one of the fish while using them as digging implements. An unmarked replacement fish, crudely bandsawed from black-coated aluminum, began swimming in stealth mode amid the school.

Sometimes it’s not the object, it’s the memories…