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If you're unsure wherever that is, it's about halfway between Victorville and Barstow on old Route 66, that is now called National Trails Highway.
Traveling up from Victorville, it's a harsh landscape with railway tracks and a huge cement works, but farther north it eases and Long's place is a sparkling spot on the horizon because it reflects the desert sun.
Long is engaged on a work of big proportions but is satisfied to stop and explain what he is doing to passers-by.
"I used to set off with my father in the '50s, and he would collect bottles," he explained. "I used to like to shoot, but he'd head for that dumps."
Today, Long may be the person receiving his father's bottle collection, as well as found thousands of more himself. But it doesn't end there. For he's turning the former glass repositories into huge "trees" that stand sentinel in the yard and reflect the light.
Each tree stands a lot more than 10 feet tall, and Long has welded branches to the steel trunks. On each of these branches he puts a bottle after which hoists the entire obelisk right into a foundation. Along with each tree,[url=http://discountnikesoccershoes.webmium.com/][b]Nike Soccer Shoes[/b][/url], he puts items he's found in the desert - one comes with an old still and on top of another he has a bed frame.
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Long is really a bearded man in his late middle age. Hooked on the background music from the Rolling Stones, which is piped into his yard, he builds at their own pace every day, while his wife is at work.
"I've lived out here twice in my life," he reflected. He's a little shaky on the exact dates,[url=http://woolrichoutletde.albirank.net/][b]Woolrich Arctic Parka[/b][/url], though. "But I returned within the first '70s. I was camping in my van, and wanted a place to stay. I saw a girl in the place I was playing pool." It appears the woman also met up with him at another place,[url=http://woolrichoutletdeutschland.halod.com/][b]http://woolrichoutletdeutschland.halod.com/[/b][/url], high was cheap barbecue, and when she said she had disappear that weekend, Long popped the question: "I asked her if I could use her place while she was gone."
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"We drove along the shoulder and I sought out glass,[url=http://woolrichparkaschweiz.albirank.net/][b]woolrich winter coats woolen mills[/b][/url]," he explained. "I was obtaining green bottles after i realized there have been always old Coke bottles in the same area; several originated from the heyday of Route 66,[url=http://duveticadoudoune.halod.com/][b]http://duveticadoudoune.halod.com/[/b][/url], when individuals weren't so careful about littering in the place. I recall it was about 114 degrees then. That was an enjoyable day."
Long's project is not just the bottle trees, because he changes direction from time to time. The noise of wind chimes floats on the warming desert air. Not the small fancy things you usually associate with that art, but hammers on hubcaps or bones on steel. All very varied and interesting.
Long gets lots of visitors and that he welcomes them all. When inquired about maybe charging, he rails at the thought.
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Long has been focusing on this project since 2000, there appears to be a massive array around the corner. His place is difficult to miss and you are thanks for visiting visit for a spell and revel in his treasures, which have been assembled from what was previously someone's trash.
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