Dolls portrayed on wall in my neighborhood

 

A wall I saw and Photographed up the street. It is on a School.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is my Neighborhood a Petting Zoo or an Urban farm?

These are Pictures of my neighborhood.

This first one is a small pony.

 

 

This one is a llama, It has 2 ponies in the

same yard with it. One is expecting.

 

 

 

 

This Zebra, Yes I said Zebra lives on the same property as the Llama. there is a goat not shown that is always in the pen with the zebra.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the expecting mare.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another Yard/ Field houses this chicken pen that also has Geese living in it. If you look hard in the lower right hand side of the picture you can see the Geese.

 

Farther down in my neighborhood is this pen of 2 goats. This guy watched me as intent as I watched him/ or her.

 

This White thing following the horse in this picture is actually a burro you can see the cross on his/her back if you look close.

 

And these Magnificent Clydesdales are also neighbors.

 

 

The final vote for farm. Are these Watermelons in one yard in my Neighborhood.

Interesting Art and History from my Neighborhood

This is a Double Distelfink Hex sign. It is a sight more common in South eastern Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania Dutch country; Berks, Bucks Lancaster counties  They are also more commonly found on Barns. This one is a wish or Prayer for Good luck and Happiness,

 

 

This is a very interesting house it has many Rusted Metal Sculptures in its yard. This view from the gateway shows a few.

 

 

This picture shows the rusted medal house silhouettes and the Conestoga wagon behind them.

 

The picture shows the black stallion sculpture in the same yard.

 

And they had more these horses.

 

Farther down this street in my neighborhood are these geese and reindeer the reindeer are rusted metal the geese seem to be plaster or ceramic or cement.

 

A bit of history I think a not so old plow.

Wall art the cows going home rusted metal

the great bird at the same house.

then I saw this wind mill water pump. it is not attached to a well but still has a bucket. they were used to pull water from wells for watering animals.

 

Another old wagon with Farmer and harvest.

 

A much older plow. this would have been pulled by a horse.

 

This is another yard full of old farm equipment and art.

 

this is another old plow. from this yard.

Amish sculptures from wood.

Here are a couple of excites to property the 2 cowboys in this picture are rusted metal sculptures also

 

And another fancier wagon waiting for a horse. At the gate exit of this property.

Diversity in dolls shows how much we are alike not just different.

I crochet a lot. One of my things I've crocheted was this little doll.

  Dolls like this doll  from Guadalajara Mexico were my incentive. I liked the ribbons and flowers used in the hairdressing of these dolls.

 

 

 

And this one also from Mexico

 

 

 

 

 

Then I saw this other doll in the picture below. This one depicts the traditional dress of the mazowsze lowicz region in Poland.

 

And this one depicting a Lublin Girl Baby. Lublin is another region in Poland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

But similarity in  traditional costumes as depicted by dolls doesn’t stop with these .

I found these pictures  of Minority dolls in China.

 

What about these dolls? Where do they come from?

Florence

and Poland

 

and Mexico

and   Naples

 

Or these?

Finland

and China

 

and Russia

 

 

 

And Mexico.

Monsoon 2011 is over.

 

Some time a Few years back a ruling was made by who knows who that the monsoon is to be a chronological even lasting from June 15 to Sept. 30.

the Day of Sept 30 this final Haboob came though. hopefully it will be the last.

But all of the weather stations here in the Phoenix metro area predicted Rain for the next week after the 30th.

Oct 1 no rain. The weather stations  reduced it to 20% and 30%.

Oct 2 still no rain.

Will we get any rain this week?

Will rain again ever?