One of the first things I noticed after moving to Syracuse was a little metal pipe sticking out of the front of our yard. In fact, all of the houses on our street and in our neighborhood have these pipes: a (usually) rusty metal tube sticking up about six or seven inches, covered by a curved cap. All in all, it looks like a little metal mushroom or, in my eyes, a tube wearing a World War I helmet. Continue reading “Metal mushroom mini-mystery”
