ROADSIDE MONUMENT--BAJA CALIFORNIA

If you examine the photo closely, you cannot help but conjure up an

explanation for the bizarre combination of symbols contained in it.

Don't overlook the animal bone. It has to have some rationale for

being embedded in the concrete. Questionable art, but a poignant capture.

Wow...this is a powerful statement....I could go bonkers on this one...religion? automobile? (a Benz no less) the bone of a free range bovine? If the potholes don't git ya...the cows will! All the world fighting over blood that makes those cars go...in the name of their god?? Or was this just a vacation trip gone bad? What ever just keep em comming,OK? David...you know I'll be back...

 

I see your are still recovering from that Poultry attack....

I did consider the bone being from that big chicken but...too much data disproves it...Bird bones are hollow even flightless ones...Second the grill of the Benz would have been way more smashed in because you know how fierce those radioactive chickens can be!!!

Any ways I enjoy your photos...thanks for posting them! Juan

 

Thanks so much for the comments. I can always count on you. Have to say that I was a little disappointed by the fact that apparently photo netters either did not really take a close look, or find birds and dogs more interesting. I thought there must be a hell of a compelling story behind such a well thought out roadside monument. Oh, are you sure that is a bovine bone. Could be from one of those giant chickens you and I have seen roaming.

Very strong impression

I've always found these things really creepy. It's like if you went swimming and someone was following you around going "You could drown. You could drown."

Thanks for the cogent comment. I don't think they are quite as common in Illinois, as here, but you can't go a couple of miles around here without running into a roadside monument. Personally I think they are tacky and tasteless, but that doesn't mean I don't find them interesting. This one, particularly. struck me as having a hell of a story behind it.

This image does me think on the two stables of sheep, which the God of Abraham, Isaak and Jacob (Israel)had choosen for His Servant, the King of Jerusalem, the Messiah. And He said that He will make the two to one flock.

Explained about the 1.believers, who came out of the gentiles, who got the Word of God from Jerusalem and the law from Sion. And 2. believers the Jews.

And satan knows this 2 flocks of the Holy Israel's and trie to kill them.

Through the mouth of Arafat he had spoken : The Jews we kill on Shabbat and

the Christians we kill on sunday. But God , He made an eternity Covenant with His people Israel, so am J Israel gai le Olaam !!! Greetings from Holland.

After studying it for a while, I can come up with several possibilities, but I'll keep my rambling to a minimum.

 

A:it's someone's idea of one-upmanship as far as these roadside memorials are concerned; or

 

B: Someone just wants to have all the bases covered...the Cross (christian), the star of David (Jewish), the bone (Voodoo perhaps?), as for the Benz grille...I'm at a loss. Perhaps it was a culturally diverse yet unlucky group of passengers who met their fate while riding in that fine piece of German engineering? Sounds like the stuff so many politically incorrect jokes are derived from, and now I'm overwhelmed with guilt for thinking such things!

 

Interesting display, whatever the purpose...

 

 

 

Good day,

Mark

Thanks. This is still one of my favorite all time conundrums. Peace to you.

"Till death brings us together"

Well that's one way of looking at it. But I'm just happy to see you prowling through some of the early work. Take care.