Showing posts with label city. Show all posts
Showing posts with label city. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

bare naked statue revisited



I took this as I walked by the little statue this afternoon. This is the same little garden ornament that I showed on January 16. Statues are amusing in the winter with the snow covering naked limbs; or the noble statues in the city squares with the pigeons sitting on the head and the droppings staining down the face and shoulders. I remember our Canadian Sir John A MacDonald with his friendly pigeons. I also remember the story that I heard when I was a child about someone the family knew who was in an automobile accident. He was knocked unconscious and laid out on the grass by the statue at the cenotaph - an angel hovering over a marching Great War soldier, Westmount, Quebec. He came to and looked up and saw the angel above him. He thought that he had died.

Monday, December 10, 2007

tri-lingual


We speak three languages up here. Well, we often speak two out of the three. I took this photo this afternoon on my way into the cop shop to pick up a police records check which I needed in order to move from here to another position. I shall be moving on in the next few months, but I still do not know to where I am going.