Young fan turns pile of leaves into wonderful Kansas City Royals crown
People who live in houses with property lined with trees realize (at least) two things about October:
1) It’s World Series time.
2) Somebody’s got to pick up all of those darned leaves. Ugh.
Why not combine the two into fantastic art? That’s what a young Kansas City Royals fan in Merriam, Kan., has done. “Sophia,” who is 12 years old, noticed an undistinguished pile of leaves in her grandfather’s yard and thought it could be something more.
“My grandpa would bring me piles of leaves and I did the art work, it took me a couple of hours but it was fun and was time shared with my grandpa,” Sophia said. “It stayed on his lawn for a few hours. Hope this is a small piece of inspiration for the Royals…!”
What a great idea and a lovely story about a kid sharing Major League Baseball with her grandfather.
The “Royals” part of her project, while not the precise cursive font the team uses on its uniforms, actually is more impressive than the crown. Letters would seem especially tough to make legible using piles of leaves. This kid has a real future in the lawn arts.
There’s only only problem: Keeping the leaves in place, and from being blown to the four corners of the yard (unless it’s already too late). She could spray glue them in place. Emptying nine of 10 bottles of hairspray on the leaves might give the leaves a permanent hold, but she’d also be ruining the ozone layer over the Kansas City area in the process. She’s probably going to have to clean up grandpa’s yard regardless, once they’ve transformed back into a shapeless mass.
It’s OK, considering the Royals haven’t been in a World Series in 29 years. Say, imagine how many leaves would have piled up, and how big of a Royals message you could make, if someone waited that long to clean up their yard?
Oh, well. The very best art is temporary anyway (no one has said, but should).
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