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30 Jun

Cross and Crow

Posted by Kym in Daily Photo, Humboldt, photo.

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Cross and Crow

Frequent Photo

The cross looms menacingly and the crow waits his chance.

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On a lighter note, does anyone local know where I took this?

22 Responses to this post.

  1. Posted by usebagon on June 30, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    I like the the juxtaposition of the two objects, especially how they can oppose each other in their symbolic meanings

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  2. Posted by Elizabeth on June 30, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    utterly perfect

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  3. Posted by Tj on June 30, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    No idea on the whereabouts, but I am curious, what are the symbolic meanings represented here.

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  4. Posted by Lisa on June 30, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    ahh hahahahahahhahaha! that’s the funniest thing I’ve read all night!

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  5. Posted by Kitty on July 1, 2009 at 3:45 am

    This reminds me of a Sting song, can’t remember the name of the song, but the lyrics are haunting, “Birds on the roof of my mother’s house, I try to chase them away, birds on the roof of my mother’s house, fly on my own roof someday.”

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  6. Posted by Kym on July 1, 2009 at 6:20 am

    To me, the cross looked like a symbol atop a grave and crows are also symbolic of death. The way the cross seemed to loom over the crow struck me as the way humans (or at least me) tend to denaturalize death and over emphasize its terrors. So that death takes on a horrible aspect nstead of just a natural part of life that comes when it comes.

    And those song lyrics seem oddly appropriate.

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  7. Posted by e. on July 1, 2009 at 9:38 am

    Has a western gothic feel about it. Dark and moody. Death and the traveler.

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  8. Posted by Kitty on July 1, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    I can’t believe I botched those lyrics because I probably listened to this one a thousand times.
    The song is “The Lazarus Heart” and the lyrics go like this:
    “Birds on the roof of my mother’s house, no stones to chase them away, birds on the roof of my mother’s house, sit on my own roof someday.”

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  9. Posted by Chip on July 2, 2009 at 6:45 am

    Are you sure that it isn’t a movie still from “The Omen”?

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  10. Posted by kristabel on July 2, 2009 at 9:16 am

    I love this photo, Kym!

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  11. Posted by Toni on July 2, 2009 at 10:58 am

    You are too funny, Kym! I hope you figure out where you were when you took this photo. It’s a great shot. Excellent observation, great composition and subject.

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  12. Posted by Lisa on July 4, 2009 at 11:33 am

    no luck with the location? it’s still funny that you have photo amnesia :)

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  13. Posted by MJEAN on July 4, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    Kym,
    Shall I disclose the location of the photo? I’m surprised that one of the locals hasn’t identified it by now.

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  14. Posted by Kym on July 4, 2009 at 11:47 pm

    I know where it is but Mom is the only one so far who has identified the place. Go ahead, tell ‘em.

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  15. Posted by John on July 5, 2009 at 4:59 am

    Good photograph…I like the negative space

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  16. Posted by olmanriver on July 5, 2009 at 11:12 am

    clearly this photo was inspired by one of bergmans flicks… is the next scene a line of exhausted and unbathed MJ clippers trudging disconsolately, laden with clipper paraphanalia, driven like cattle up thomas road by shorthaired growers in baseball caps driving F-350s?
    good coffee this AM

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  17. Posted by O. Rivierra on July 5, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    now that i have sobered up from the coffee, i wish to say that that grower stereotype probably fits salmon creek the least of many neighborhoods, no wish you paint your hood with such a brush, my movie mind was rambling at the mouth.

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  18. Posted by Carson Park Ranger on July 5, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    The photo reminds me of the excellent HBO series Carnivàle. One almost expects a dust storm to blow in from the east.

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  19. Posted by MJEAN on July 5, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    With all the possible scenarios posted for the location of this photo, I almost hesitate to share the answer to Kym’s question. The answer is much more mundane than those suggested, but, here goes.

    I’m not sure who is presently housed in this building but it is located next to the Garberville Postoffice. At one time, it was the building used by, I believe, the Assembly of God Church – thus the cross. I don’t have an answer for why the crow was there.

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  20. Posted by Kym on July 6, 2009 at 9:30 am

    I know why the crow was there Tang Soo Do was getting out and the crow was hoping for crumbs from snacking kids!

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  21. Posted by MJEAN on July 6, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    Hmm… good title for a book, “The Crooked Cross and the Hungry Crow.”

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  22. Posted by noise bursts on July 18, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    This is amazingly heavy.

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