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29-Apr-2021

The one-armed lumberjack

Sahraa and I pass by this sculpture every day on our walk home, and I finally thought to photograph it the other week. They usually have it dressed up in some fashion, which I think looks silly, so I took advantage of the fact that he was “naked” for a change.

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The Capitol Hill Restoration Society has a "whimsical" scavenger hunt on their website in which you're given a large number of addresses on the Hill (along with pictures with no addresses), at which people have works of "art" in their front yards. Some of them are quite showy, some are small and rather ordinary, but we spent the afternoon tracking most of them down, and these are the resulting pictures. The society first introduced this tour last year but was again promoting it for their 2021 Mother's Day "Tour of Tours," so we thought we'd take them up on the challenge. Which it definitely was.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly
unsharp.

Capitalsaurus Chasing a Falcarius, posted earlier:

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victorswan13-May-2021 18:23
Just an amazing piece of art, and great images you made of it BV
Don Mottershead13-May-2021 02:07
Boyfriend of Venus de Milo?
Julie Oldfield12-May-2021 00:35
He reminds of an old Civil War solider who lost a limb. It is very interesting to see. V
Dennis Hoyne11-May-2021 23:58
a lovely photograph of this interesting artwork.
janescottcumming11-May-2021 21:40
It is actually a very nice carving. The grain of the wood works so well with the figure. V
Ursula Miller11-May-2021 21:36
A nice composition! V
Mairéad11-May-2021 20:35
He looks quite good au naturale.
The tour sounds like a fun idea.
LynnH11-May-2021 18:50
That's a wonderful and cool tree sculpture. We have a lot of them around here now. I guess you have to make sure it's one you can live with for a very long time. :) V
Philip P11-May-2021 18:34
Nice composition, looks like he lost his arm in the name of freedom!
joseantonio11-May-2021 17:41
nice composition with the flag in the background.V.
John Hamers11-May-2021 17:36
Beautifully carved statue and a nice decoration in the garden. V!
Milan Vogrin11-May-2021 16:53
Nice compo. V
larose forest photos11-May-2021 15:41
You do have some interesting neighbours, with all the decorations nearby; agree that this would look silly dressed up, but very interesting like this. Super shot. V
Hank Vander Velde11-May-2021 15:21
Good shot of this well carved statue Helen.