little statue…
Everyday I pass this statue (is it catholics that have the saint statues in front of their homes?). She is along the street next to the train, so I am sure it is not the ideal apartment. There is something fantastic and quite sad about her. Maybe I love her more than the other garish saint statues because her paint is wearing away. I took this after we had a bit of rain, so I love the collection of leaves at her base like she is mother nature.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:29 am
Yup, Catholics. I’ve seen some people put little glass houses around their statues to protect them from the elements.
May 1st, 2006 at 5:01 pm
[…] green girl did a post about the mary statues today and i wrote a response and then felt slightly self-conscious about it (my thoughts were a bit tattered and scattered) but her post reminded me of last mother’s day when marty and i put a very weathered mary statue with balloons on my mother’s deck — we snuck up there in the pouring rain (were gonna put it in her back yard overlooking the pond so she’d see it from her kitchen window in the morning — her neighborhood’s very chi-chi and she hates tack and kitsch)…well, i didn’t count on her being up still and she caught us redhanded crouched on the deck trying to avoid her spotlight (of course, she called for my dad but by the time he responded, we were gone — i mean a former marine who spent one of the bloodiest years in vietnam is just not gonna get too worked up over a possible intruder, y’ know?) — felt like a deer in the headlights — but she still has the statue even tho she occasionally remembers to ask me when i’m gonna go over and get it…i love those statues and how about the upside-down bathtub shrines? — but as my mother would say, that’s my shanty irish immigrant roots (that i’m very proud of)… […]
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:43 am
janel - no one around hear has the glass house - I love it worn though.
patricia - I love this story!!
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:11 pm
I agree, they look better worn and mossy than with a little greenhouse over them.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:44 pm
gasp… that is so lovely!
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:53 pm
i love her because she looks like she’s lived a well-loved life.
May 4th, 2006 at 5:44 am
love your photos - so very touching and beautiful!!
May 5th, 2006 at 8:00 am
janel - I like when mother nature has a little hand in it!
lisa - thank you - glad that your back
michelle - I think well-loved is so perfect
maditi - thank you.
May 9th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
love this photo wendy! while I’m not a religious person the Mary statues always seem more holy somehow when they’re more weathered.
May 11th, 2006 at 4:03 am
Oh so good of you to take the time to capture MARY so gently worn over the many seasons. Thank You for sharing this.
Namaste,
MB