Lichtenstein

A sculpture by American artist Roy Lichtenstein

Door

A little way up the alley from the hot chocolate shop.

Blu

We looked at a lot of graffiti on our Fat Tire Bike Tour. This is by Blu, in the former West.

Intimes Kino

The constantly changing graffiti wall at Intimes Cinema in the former East.

Berlin week: wir bleiben alle

"We are all staying."

A former squat, in the former East.

Samson Slaying the Philistine

Unusual choice for garden art, I thought.

Albert Memorial

Commissioned by Queen Victoria after the death of her husband.

February & March 2012

February: Valentine's day, the Prix de Lausanne ballet competition, more Ramseyer art, and the Lion of Lucerne.

March: We traveled to the US. I took lots of photos with my mind's eye, but none with a camera. 

Some of our adventures in West Virginia can be seen here and here.

January 2012

January was a crafty month for us: I worked on several sewing projects, and Zak carved a set of salad spoons for his mom and a butter knife for us. We also visited the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, and celebrated Zak's birthday.

Louis XIV

A statue of Louis XIV in the courtyard of the Musée Carnavalet.

Arc de Triomphe

La Marseillaise, one of the sculptures on the face of the Arc de Triomphe.

Lady Liberty

Colmar is the birthplace of Frédéric Bartholdi, the sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty. The city has its own replica in a roundabout that was next to our car rental company.

Colmar train station art (part two)

Part two: after their rescue, they become models for the painter.

Colmar train station art

The Colmar train station had two large windows covered with art by French artist, Jean Le Gac.

In this image, a painter bravely jumps from a train to rescue twins from danger.

Myself I shall adore

These sculpted landscape figures in Montreux brought to mind an aria from Semele, the opera we saw earlier this month: "Myself I shall adore, / if I persist in gazing. / No object sure before / was ever half so pleasing."

Montreux Ramseyer

Plentitude (1985)

An André Ramseyer sculpture on the waterfront in Montreux to add to the survey from early July.

St. Imier sculpture

A sculpture of St. Imier himself, founder of the town.

St. Imier clock

One of the clock towers in St. Imier. This type of single-hand clock is common around our part of Switzerland. 

The text under the clock face says, "Be careful because you don't know what hour our Lord is coming."

Cow art

Kinetic cow sculpture in the Migros grocery store in the city center of Bern.

Slug

Also at the botanical garden.