Election Signs...

Tyringham road is a lovely, long country road that is the fastest way for me to get from Becket to Monterey for racing canoe practice. The road has a lot of large farms, hayfields, the occasional art gallery and at dusk it's often a place where you'll see some of the most magnificent sunsets in the county. But none of this is the subject of this post. This post is about election signs, specifically the signs I saw today on Tyringham road. You see, as I drove by a barnyard this morning I saw two signs, one for a local sheriff's race the other for the local district attorney's contest. Nothing special about these signs except their placement. They were both stuck in the top of a large manure pile. I couldn't help but wonder if they were stuck there because the manure was a soft and easy place to stick a sign or whether the placement of the signs was some type of editorial comment on the candidates. Maybe I'll pull over and ask the next time I drive by...