Ellie is back!

But, after being happy to see her again, and getting my picture taken with her... I find out, it is a double. She was kidnapped last fall, and has not been found. The bar owner had a new one made.

Glad she's back...

We had a similar incident in our area...a religious store had a Jesus statue outside that was in rough shape. Then it was stolen and no clue what happened to it. Several days later, it reappeared just as mysteriously and it was completely repaired with fresh paint.

Susan...love the baby deer shot! Sorry your laid up. Hope you feel better.

Alisande, I'm sorry to hear about your shingles outbreak. This is a revisit, right? That stinks!!

Mine is also Abe Lincoln on horseback. This statue is inside his tomb at Springfield, IL.

So sorry Alisande...hope you feel better fast!

Alisande, hope you are better soon.

Thanks, everyone! Yes, this isn't the first time. But it's the first time to have it on my scalp. Ugh. Quarantine because I can't go near my daughter-in-law or her family because she's pregnant. (Excellent news!!) Sorry to hijack this photo thread. Please proceed. :-)

My one and only grandson turned 23 today!

Santa Fe, NM

Dawn, I am not sure what that statue is about....?

Lars,

Sure glad you were able to find a horse ... seemed a shame to have poor Paul standing there all alone!

Elizabeth,

You've heard the expression, "He died with his boots on!"?

Guess the deer figured if it was O.K. for humans, maybe he should try it. But one doubts whether he'd make such a choice.

Or maybe the human who killed him did it.

ole joyful

Lars - I think that's General Tadeusz Kosciuszko. It's on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 18th St.

Not quite as well known as the Rocky statue....

I posted a photo of a centaur in July - now here's the other one.

Leah, Heckle and Jeckle? I remember watching them when I was a kid, about 100 years ago.

Not a statue.

Elizabeth, I took that photo outside of a Indian art gallery named Sorrell Sky in Santa Fe. I believe the sculpture is of a deer dancer. From what I have read, the deer dance symbolizes the struggle between good and evil through a confrontation between deer and coyotes. It is a dance that is performed among the Yaqui tribe of the Southwest.

Maire Cate, you are right; it is General Tadeusz Kościuszko, hero of Poland and the U.S. I think one would find Paul Revere in Boston instead, and I've never been there. I just looked at my photo more closely, and I could see the top part of the inscription (which I had cropped). I took the photo from across the street, zoomed in, and I could not read it from where I saw the statue.

I didn't see the Rocky statue, but I did see a marble statue of Benjamin Franklin in the building with his name on it.

Ben is everywhere in Philly. I used to volunteer as an extra helper every year when our schools took the 5th grade to the Franklin Institute. And if I remember correctly the Rotunda was modeled after the Pantheon. My son was a Boy Scout and I lucky enough to join them for a sleepover on the marble floor with Ben - not the most comfortable accommodation.

Maire

Joanmn, I don't think it's Heckle & Jeckle (I remember them too)-it's in Cannon Beach, OR and that's a rather snooty, arty community...LOL.

I have these from a trip to Boston.

Extraneous Information: Significance of horse pose in statuary.

Copied from a web page.

A horse statue with legs raised in the air is said to signify that the rider was killed in battle.
Although this is a common belief among some equestrians and artisans
alike, this designation is not universally applied. At some historic
sites across the United States and in other countries, horses with both
legs raised are found with riders who were not killed in battle.

Some views maintain that a horse statue with one leg raised is
associated with a rider who was injured but did not die in battle.
Others views contend that this is symbolic of a rider who was not only
injured in battle but died at a later time from those injuries. A horse
with all four feet on the ground is said to represent a rider that was
neither killed nor injured in battle but who died away from the
battlefield of something unrelated to war or battle.

A significant number of horse statues in Washington, D.C. and in
London, England, do not follow these alleged protocols regarding leg
location on a horse statue. The U.S. and the U.K. are the two countries
in which the contentions about horse leg statue positions are most
prevalent.

While on a business trip, an associate of the company that I worked for was showing me around New Orleans when we came upon a statue of a Confederate Soldier on a horse. He said, "Note that the rear end of the horse points north. I do not know if this has any significance, but the locals like to think so."