Monday Murals
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| Beijing Sami of Colourful World challenges bloggers to share a mural every Monday. My mural this week was seen in Beijing. I wish it were framed better. To see more Monday Murals, click here. |
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
It looks like the poor bird doesn't stand much of a chance with everyone pointing their weapons at him. It's quite a unique mural.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand the context. You're right the bird doesn't stand a chance.
DeleteVery unusual mural. A peace dove maybe? in the middle of all those weapons. Thanks for participating in Monday Murals.
ReplyDeleteThe bird has some sort of ammunition, I think, in front of it. I just don't understand it.
DeleteI kind of like it, it's almost like a religious mural.
ReplyDeleteIt's quasi religious. There's a definite military tone too.
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