Eco Friendly Gift - Recycled Glass Birch Leaf - Nature Lover order Gift - Glass Leaf Mobile

Yellow green glass from a wine bottle from California renders a pleasing look to a birch leaf that flew across the street from my neighbor's yard onto my boulevard--made to order...allow a couple of days for send-off!

The leaf measures about 2 3/4" long by about 2" wide with a 1 1/2" copper stem and ball bearing swivel for twirling.

Excerpt from my most promising (an especially glowing rejection from The Great River Review, eh?) experimental short story written in 1986...

Large muscular, warty elms abstractly towering overhead. One incongruous birch on the boulevard, dazzling white trunk with the leaves turning yellow. When I was sixteen, I went into the woods around Lake Alamagnet and carefully dug up a clump of birch saplings and transplanted them in our backyard. My mother tended them, and they thrived on her attention.

Another memory. When I was about ten, we were living in a big house near the corner of Pillsbury Avenue and 36th Street. My mother nursed a shivering week-old squirrel with an eye-dropper, heating pad, and her hands--the baby squirrel's mother had been hit by a car in front of our house. I remember my mother's hands.

Silver maples. Sugar maples. A remnant of elms...one large ponderous elm with a vaginal-like opening you could almost climb into. Trees that are distinct from others, smooth and rough trunks--I wonder how the birch are doing now? Watermelon rinds.

RECAP: Looking for an Eco Friendly Gift - this Recycled Glass Birch order Leaf might be just the thing you've been looking for - Perfect for a Nature Lover Gift - or someone interested in kinetics...Glass Leaf Mobile!

Material Details:
Reclaimed glass wine bottle
Copper foil
Copper rods and wire
Lead free solder
ball bearing swivel

Dimensions, inches:
Leaf Height: 2 3/4"
Leaf Width: 2"
Stem: 1 1/2"

I enjoy a natural patina as metals begin to oxidize in the scheme of things...silver solder lines and copper rods for leaf stems develop a lovely patina over time. In light, the pieces will present a dark solder line (I don't apply acid to the metals unless requested) and copper stems will appear dark with natural light. At night, the ambient light from indoors will give a different view, reflecting off the various metals.

Here's a link...if after reading my philosophy on copper and silver versus uniform black lines, you decide you still want the nitric acid patina... https://www.etsy.com/listing/561151716/black-patina-add-on-finish-art-piece