Tuesday, October 1, 2013

City Daily Photo Theme Day - Details



Birmingham sculptor, Elizabeth MacQueen's powerful sculpture The Four Spirits, was unveiled on the 50th anniversary of the bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church taking the lives of four innocent little girls in 1963. Pictured here is Cynthia Wesley sitting on the bench with an open book in her lap.  Look closely and you see it's an excerpt from Y.B.Yeat's poem, The Stolen Child.

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.


Today my City Daily Photoblog friends around the world are sharing their take on this month's theme......details. Click here to see them all!

18 comments:

VoyagesetAbstraits said...

jolis clichés!

Thérèse said...

The flowers make the sculpture even more alive!

Stuart said...

Well done Virginia. And a very moving memorial.

Tanya Breese said...

very moving...

Dave-CostaRicaDailyPhoto.com said...

Perfect choice.

Gerald (SK14) said...

so nice

Ken Mac said...

and we all know what's in the details!

Ken Mac said...

It ain't there no more! What the well I never...

Lowell said...

This certainly brings back memories. I was on my way to Chicago in 1963 to enter graduate school. For a time I thought I'd go south and march with King and others but with three little ones at home I couldn't do that. I do remember the bombing, though. :(

William Kendall said...

Beautiful shots, Virginia. I like your choice for today.

Chattahoochee Valley Daily said...

Thanks for sharing. Very nice.

Jim said...

Great theme day post.

magiceye said...

This is so beautiful

Bob Crowe said...

Didn't get around to theme day - new dimensions in overwork - but this is a wonderful example.

I love Yeats. We walked by his house in Dublin once.

Carraol said...

Beautiful post, great words and the colors of the flowers in the first image add a poetic and wonderful touch to the sculpture!

Karl said...

Love the flowers in this photo, they make the difference between a photo of the sculpture and yours!

TheChieftess said...

Sweet...

Leovi said...

Very cute detail, nice photo!