Roadside Photographs
This is one of my fave views from the freeway driving back home. It is 62 feet tall and is in front of Monroe's Solid Rock Church. Roadside America has a nice article on it here.
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This is one of my fave views from the freeway driving back home. It is 62 feet tall and is in front of Monroe's Solid Rock Church. Roadside America has a nice article on it here.
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I smiled at eek's comment.
I now have started a bird blog.
Abraham Lincoln
Just My Birds Blog
Sherry
thanks colette. I really should have called this blog the art life of jafabrit because it is so much more than just showing work that I have done.
I guess so eek LOL! oh laa laa!
Lovely abraham, will look foward to checking it out.
I liked the accompanying article and the reference to "touchdown Jesus" and "Jesus drowning". It must be quite a site along the highway. At first I thought it was just a big statue of Jesus, but now I can't get football out of my head!
This ladies has some kimonos.
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ArtBiz newsletter had a picture.
It's going to be one of those days...
xox
*HUGS*
I say it looks as if he is in quicksand and Gracie was a bit bothered by this statue the first time she saw it. She thought Jesus was drowning...
Oh my but it IS an interesting landmark!
I hope your trip was a great one and that your daughter loves it down South. We have lived in FL 3 times...lots to see and do and it is going to be glorious there in the Fall and Winter. : )
Hugs,
Sue
I must say -- the Big Jesus is kinda' creepy. I would NOT want to live across the street from that.
there was a church not far from us that put a 7 metre (23 feet) statue of Mary on their roof, the church was on a hill so this ginormous woman in blue loomed over the whole suburb, there were so many complaints that they had to remove it and replace it with a 5 metre one - so now she's just e-normous instead of gi-
In Australia we have giant tourist attractions, but not giant religious ones. We have giant Pineapples, Golf balls, Cows, Fish, Bananas, a Tape deck, Gold Miner, Sheep, Mandarins, Bunyips, Boots, and more. Each one has it's own tawdry tourist shop with strange kitsch momentos.
In fact someone has made a book and doco. just on this weird phenomenon.
It is sort of wierd isn't it. My husband wondered what the romans might have thought seeing the giant crosses. I blurted out they might think it is a sign for a execution arena or something arg! I know, I blaspheme. eek!