This is the shoe fence near Rice, California. It was initially a shoe tree of obscure origin, where travelers would hang pairs of shoes, but the tree burned down in 2003 and was replaced by a "shoe garden." It's a garden only in the loosest sense of the word: a bare patch of ground about a hundred feet square surrounded by fencing. This allows the tradition to continue, and apparently also serves as a roadside memorial to someone named Dominick who died last year. The bottom photo shows the "garden" from the inside.
A noble monument to our ancestors.
Shoe fence vs. shoe hanging from a power or telephone line?
What say the commentariat?
So a dump