Off of the normally traveled highway, rambling down scenic Route 66, there’s a small town with an ominous sounding name of Bagdad, California.  As you're driving it’s quite easy to miss this hidden treasure located in Baghdad.  Set off of the highway, a piece of land you might dismiss as a rundown junkyard or abandon property. 

But on closer inspection you will find a marvelous Bottle Farm featuring hundreds of scavenged bottles built into amazing sculptures of steel and glass.  Getting past the gate with ominous signs shouting  “Keep Out” and “No Trespassing”…. You’ll notice inside the gate a slotted box with it's own sign of  “Accepting Donations Here”. The gate’s not really locked.  So I considered the signs more of a suggestion instead of a real warning.  So far, so good.  Inside there are many spires made of pipe and steel reaching up to the sky, covered with bottles of various colors and often other pieces of non-related hardware like sinks, cans, and whatever else seemed handy at the time.  Truly this location is a photographers dream, so many shapes and sizes to draw from.  The possibilities are just about endless on ways to create a collage of the surreal.