Nature can accomplish many really cool things,
like this tree that actually GREW around a bike parked up against it.
Read ON...
A young boy's lost bicycle has led to a unique piece of natural roadside art on Washington state's Vashon Island, over 50 years later.
Traveling off of Vashon Highway, about 50 feet into the woods behind the
local Sound Food Café, travelers will come across a peculiar site - an
intact, 1950s-era bicycle embedded into a tree.
In 1954 Helen Puz had been recently widowed when she received the bike as a gift from someone in the community.
"People were very sympathetic and generous," Puz said. "We were given a girl's bike and my 8-year-old son Don seemed the natural one to ride it."
But Don Puz was
none-too-pleased to be cruising the island, which is nestled between
Seattle and Tacoma, on a girl's bike. One day he told his mother that he
had lost the bike, and given that it was built for a girl, they decided
to let it go.
It wasn't until decades later that Helen Puz, now 99, found out what
happened to her son's bike when she read in the local Beachcomber
newspaper that someone had discovered the bike five feet high in the
air, embedded in the tree. The tree had grown around it!
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