Is This Upcycling or What?

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While Hubby was having cataract surgery this morning I took a walk around the medical building complex and the streets the buildings were on. I'm trying to build up strength and wanted to move a lot while I was wearing the Holter monitor. I figured if I got into trouble, the hospital was across the street, and my cardiologist and primary care physician were a five minute walk away. On my walk I observed a number of unusual things, but this was the most unusual. I was walking past a vacant lot where a lot of the noxious star thistle weeds, deadly to some livestock, was growing. It's kind of pretty when in bloom, with its tiny yellow star-shaped flowers surrounded by long thistles sticking out around them. Very few flowers were left, and the plants had mostly dried out. On the other side of the lot was a construction office in a trailer and some building materials. The cone may have some from there or from some of the other nearby construction projects. Wherever it came from, someone decided to use it as a vase for a bouquet of star thistles. I have touched up the photo a bit with PicMonkey so the thistles in the vase stand out a bit from the star thistles in the background. Have you ever seen a construction cone used this way before? What other uses might you think of for these cones?