The "cow parade" concept originated in Zurich. I saw them there years ago. Bern then had a similar project with bears, rather than cows. I have also seem mermaids (in Halifax). In our area, we had contests for decorating fiberglass horses as a charity fund raiser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CowParade Dan On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan, > > That does look like those English cows from Milton Keyes, > but I'll bet it's not concrete! > > Chicago had one of the first cow display art projects (1999). > Fiberglass cows were decorated and displayed locally > at points all around the city. > > http://www.chicagotraveler.com/cowsonparade1.htm > > Your cow in the pick-up looks like a fugitive from our herd. > > Regards, Bob S. > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Thanks, Dominique. >> >> Yes, the first image is stronger. The second was added mostly to show >> what was in the truck a bit more clearly. >> >> Dan >> >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Madame RD <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Le 10/06/10 04:56, Daniel J. Matyola a écrit : >>>> >>>> On the way home from work today, I ran into a traffic jam, and found >>>> myself behind a truck carrying a cow: >>>> >>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11114135 >>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11114131 >>>> >>>> Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms, Suggestions and Abuse are Welcome. >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Holy cow !!!!! in french La vache ! >>> the first picture is stronger ... and weirder maybe because of dark sky and >>> red lights ... >>> >>> dominique >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
