Monday, March 4, 2019

Goofing Around with Statues

Annamaria on Monday


I might, today, have been able to do justice to some fascinating blog subject,  IF I hadn't spent the past week trying to settled myself back home after twelve weeks away.  And worse yet, been under the gun to get ready the tax information for the accountant.  

I did all that.  AND I managed install a new printer in place of the one that died while I was in Africa.   AND was forced to make my desktop work properly after various IOS and App upgrades over the past three months.

Today, I rewarded myself for the above accomplishments by finding some favorite photos of silly moments in travels passed.  David and I, early on, developed a habit of goofing around with photos of statues we found hither and yon.  There are others in my archives, but here are the ones that came to hand today

Not exactly a statue: Elvis at Madame Tussaud's in
New Orleans

The archeological museum in Agrigento, Sicily 1979

Circa 30 years later

Also Italy 1979
China 1986
Ditto

London 1996
Ditto
Missiones, Argentina, c. 1993

Ditto

Venice Biennale 1980s?

Eight-year-old twin pretending to be a statue, Italy 2012
Double ditto


Paris 2009
Ditto

Aspen 2003?
Maybe
Whispering in Picasso's ear, Mougins, France 2019
Professional statuary humor

14 comments:

  1. The more things change, the more you remain the same, sis...I’m happy to say.

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  2. Still channeling my inner goofball, Bro. I confess. Not even seventeen years of nuns trying to reform me in my childhood made much of dent. I fear I am incorrigible!

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  3. Now I have a new hobby when I see statues!

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  4. It doesn't look like you're whispering in Picasso's ear, it looks like you're looking for his brains... Loved you with the MadDogDemon in China 1986; just as I've always imagined you.

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    1. EvKa, perhaps if I were taller, I could have leaned in closer to the ear in question. That's my daughter goofing with the Fu-dogs. And her with the ancient Greek lion's head. She's the one with kissing Churchill, too. She embraced this fine family tradition!

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  5. Bet you still ride the shopping cart back to the stack at the supermarket as well, Annamaria... :))

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    1. Of course I do, Zoe. In regular school, if you do the wrong thing, you go to the principal's office. In Catholic school, you go to the principal's AND you go to hell when you die. One does NOT outgrow such training.

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  6. I second Jeff . . . I love your smile, and your mischievous, fun-filled way of looking at the world.

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    1. Do you think it wise that we encourage AA so? :).

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  7. Wise, Bro? Wisdom when it’s required—I’m all for that. But the rest of the time, I give fun a high priority. Giggling is good for the soul.

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  8. I love these photos. The fun in your spirit show through. Keep on giggling!

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    1. Thank you, Ann. I don't think I could stop, even if dignity sometimes seems to demand a more serious approach to life. Laughter=sanity for me.

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  9. Especially love the photo of your David reading to FDR & Churchill.



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