Wholly Clean
Last weekend Your Boulevardier was hosting the Subcompact Loaner, and so more walks were taken in our immediate neighborhood. This piece of garden art has been noticed many times before, but this time a photo was snapped.
It is a statue of the Virgin Mary, and yes, the protective shell behind her appears to be fashioned from a bathtub. (Click the photo for a closer view.) It's quite beautifully and respectfully done, in Your Boulevardier's opinion, and clever to boot. In its shape and in its blue color, it evokes the grotto at Lourdes. There's also an unexpected touch of whimsy in the whole thing.
If readers can suggest other pieces of Castro Valley garden art Your Boulevardier should check out, please post in the comments or email your.boulevardier@gmail.com.
Labels: beret, garden art, Subcompact Loaner
posted by Your Boulevardier @ 8:40 AM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
There is certainly some reverence in placing of that statue. Here is to recycling at it's finest!
While not as unusual as the shrine in your photo, there's a nice chainsaw-art bear on the south side of Somerset, a few houses east of Santa Maria. I always admire it as I go by.
bob_s: Thanks for the suggestion. That bear sculpture has already been noted on the Castro Valley Boulevardier. http://www.castrovalleyboulevardier.com/2009/06/somerset-bear.html
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