The bucket and spade tree at Lulworth Cove

I've looked at this tree - decorated with kids' buckets and spades - every time I walk back up from the cove at Luworth - each year there are more of these poignant fruits suspended from the branches -

I guess that the buckets and spades are picked up from the beach, a few hundred yards away - there's a scrap of gritty sand just beyond the slipway - they must have been left behind by families leaving for their Renault Picassos or Rav 4s - ready for the drive home -

The bucket and spade tree is in the back garden of one of the old  Coast Guard cottages - you can see what looks like rhubarb growing there - there's a neat framework for runner beans and a line of water buts - white flowers cluster near a post - a bright green web of weeds is evidently spreading over the dark soil - netting covers some obscure plants -

I wonder why these yellow, blue and and red buckets and spades are hung here - they look like votive offerings - tokens of happy afternoons and vanished times -