Best Lawn Ornament Ever

I mentioned this one in a previous post, but we actually made a point of going back to Tipton last Thursday so I could get a picture of this. Prepare to be awestruck.


Yeah, that's right. It's a pastel pink and white pony. With wings. On a pastel blue something or another. The colors are slightly more vivid in person. Like with the giant spider at the link above, you know there's an interesting story behind this. And I did kind of want to find out what that story was, but . . . how to even ask the question, you know? It's obviously awesome, but I'm not sure I'm appreciating it in quite the same way as the owner(s). Could be awkward.

The husband and I racked our brains on the way home trying to think of ways to make a lawn ornament that was even more over the top; words like "with lipstick" and "airbrushed" and "rainbow colors" figured prominently in the discussion. Also we're pretty sure that it'd have to be a unicorn instead of a pony. Rhinoceros at the outside. And if there were some way to work in some glow-in-the-dark paint somewhere, that'd be good too.

The rest of the lawn, incidentally, was disappointingly normal-looking. Some people spread a thin layer of whimsy on everything, and others concentrate their whimsy down into a thick, sludgy paste and cake it on one very specific item with a trowel. These people are in the latter category.