 | Here's one of several antique street clocks remaining in Victoria, this one on Broughton Street downtown. I suspect many of today's younger set will find it challenging to discover the time from this old analog style timepiece, so it is nice to have these old clocks preserved and in working order. If you want to find out a bit more about this particular clock, click on the photo to the left to expand it to readable size. |
Going through photographs this morning it struck me that this one that I had taken a few weeks back suddenly reminded me of yesterdays post of the summer grass. The shapes share a resemblance and a certain whimsy although this structure is much more solid and unmoving! Its a sculpture built in the central courtyard of the Library Building on Broughton Street. It's known as Dynamic Mobile Steel Sculpture by George Norris. - Fern
Expert Victorian author Ross Crockford describes this mural as "appalling" and quotes another source who suggests this may "very well be the worst mural in Canada, perhaps even in the world." Please click on it for the LARGE picture in order to enjoy many of its splendid details. I am particularly fond of the mountain lion's expression as he eyes the juicy young violinist.
As our Willits correspondent would say, now that we've discussed the elephant in the room we can move on to more important things.
