Saguaro Gate

I made this gate and placed it in a breezeway between the main house and my shop at our First Avenue address.  It is primarily welded square tubing to create a square within a square.  Short pieces of saguaro rib are placed between three sides of the squares.  The top arch has colored glass pieces similar to one other rainbow gate that was the subject of an earlier post.  The center shape is a large section of saguaro in a band iron frame.

The gate was fitted with self closing hinges and a lockable latch to qualify as a barrier to the pool.  It had fine expanded metal mesh fastened over the surface to keep out varmints.  This had little effect on the occasional bob cat that wandered by and hopped over with ease to get a drunk from the pool.  In fact we had a young female bob cat that stayed with us for quite some time.  She spent time in an upstairs deck or sleeping in our love seat.  She did her hunting at night and since our bedroom was under her second story roost we could hear when she came down stairs.  Her picture is shown below to authenticate this story and there is much more to the tail in the second volume of my autobiography, "Which Road Should I Follow?"

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