Southern gardens, wine and evil spirits...

Every garden needs a bottle tree.  Don't you agree?

Preferably a "haint blue" bottle tree. 

Apparently, as lore suggests from ancient times, spirits, ghosts, genies, imps and "haints" are attracted to and trapped in bottles in the night air, only to be destroyed by the morning light.  The wind rushing through the bottles makes an eerie sound that slightly resembles cries made by captured spirits. 

{Use your imagination here...!}

Ask any southerner if they have a blue bottle tree in their garden and they will quickly answer with, 

"I do declare, of course! How else will we keep those nasty evil things away from the house?"
{Please read the above statement again out loud, in your best southern drawl.  It sounds much more authentic that way...merci darlin'.}

Could it be?...that I just might have captured an "imp" in the picture below?

(Lucky for me, I have six vacancies on my tree.)  

...I do declare, I'm in the mood for Rieisling!