Monday Mural
In Uptown
Sami of Colourful World hosts Monday Murals, a favorite photo challenge of mine. Here's a mural I first saw in the summer when it was just getting sketched on the wall. Now it's finished.
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Sepia Saturday
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas For this week's Sepia Saturday I thought I'd share photos from my visit to Old World Wisconsin. Last week a friend and I visited this historic site in Eagle, Wisconsin to see it's Christmas festivities. Old World Wisconsin is a place where they've gathered and restored buildings from the 19th Century. In December on the weekend's they're open to show visitors how Christmas was celebrated over 100 years ago. In the town's church, which was the first Catholic church in Milwaukee, visitors could sing carols. The performers read a Christmas passage from a Little House on the Prairie book. They also brought kids up from the audience and they read "The Night Before Christmas." Ready for Christmas morning. This room is set up for a cobweb party. Each guest has a color of string and they have to unravel the string to get to their Christmas gift. I wonder what other kinds of parties they had back then. This l
I like the Asian influence on the mural. Thanks for participating in Monday Murals.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind comments. It's in an neighborhood which different Asian groups have flocked to and set down roots.
DeleteIt's beautiful. It's colorful. It's slightly scary!!
ReplyDeleteYes, that dragon looks like it wouldn't think twice about attacking when provoked.
DeleteGreat find! There’s so much action in this mural.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. It's quite dynamic.
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