Rossmoyne Street Scarecrow Competition 2013

Here are some of the scarecrows in the Rossmoyne Street Scarecrow Competition.   I think there were more than 100 in the end.   The one immediately below is Ada's and my effort.   Very rushed and she (the scarecrow not Ada) did get knocked over by the wind a couple of times.    The photo below of the two gothic sort of scarecrows are opposite my place, and they were the winners.

The intention was as part of a program for which our street has a little funding from Council to emphasise to passing drivers that a street like this is a living space not just a corridor.  I am cynical enough to think that through traffic would be better slowed with hard things like speed humps and barriers at cross streets like they have in Carlton or Kew, where I discovered the other day it is impossible to get from High Street travelling west through to the Chandler Highway!   
The scarecrows probably worked as an exercise in neighbourhood bonding that was a little more original than the usual street party.....and we made the local paper - front page - twice.
Most of all though it was fun.