California cement worker Elmer Long turned discarded bottles and scrap metal into a desert art forest; as Route 66 turns 100, his two-acre ranch has 200 trees, 1,000+ bottles and visitors from around the world
The two-acre property has around 200 bottle trees made using more than 1,000 glass bottles A collection of discarded glass bottles, old metal parts and other unwanted objects became a popular roadside attraction in California after a cement worker named Elmer Long began turning them into unusual sculptures. Known as Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch, the…