Snake Terrace Extraordinaire

Playground, Tours Aillaud

Nanterre, Paris, July 2010

This wonderful photo is thanks to my blogging friend VP of Livorno, Italy. Check out his Daily Photo Stream and Livorno Daily Photo blogs. If you want some additional fun, see VP's A Bunch of Benches blog. You will be amazed :) That blog started out as a joke and was later discovered. I have no idea what the inside joke was about, but it now has a following of folks who like seeing a daily morph of the bench theme. Back to the photo above: I have not seen this gargantuan snake myself, but I can imagine how excited I'd be to find it while walking through the city. I also love the treatment of the buildings in the background. Thanks, VP!

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Avalon

Los Angeles ~ 2003
From the series "Los Angeles Urban Art 2003"
by Francisca

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Animal Art on a Victorian Facade

London ~ February 19, 2010
Natural History Museum

This eel, snake, and dog- or wolf-like animal are some of the many sculptures and reliefs on the facade of the magnificent Victorian-era Natural History Museum in London.

Visit Weekend Reflections, hosted by James

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Alien Monster?

Manaus, Brazil ~ April 25, 2007

I couldn't tell you what this strange creature is other than some kind of imaginative or fantasy or mythological serpent. Note the teeth in the back of its neck. We saw this in the market square in Manaus, where I wanted to take home almost everything I saw, and fortunately (?) couldn't afford to and didn't have a big enough suitcase. Of course, it reminds me of the monster in Alien. Who knows? I don't even know what it's made of, other than it looks like modeling clay.

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