Guelph Bird Statue

I was in Guelph over the weekend and when I was walking past the city bus terminal I noticed a giant statue of a bird perched on a lamppost. At first I thought I was seeing things. It looked old and deformed, with yellow paint peeling off it's wings. The bus terminal itself is only a few years old, and this bird looked older than it. I wondered how long I'd been walking past it and failing to notice it.

I met up with someone later that day and asked her if she'd seen the giant bird statue at the terminal. She said she'd seen it for the first time this past week and had wondered if it had been there a long time and she hadn't noticed. Together, we decided it must be recent, since both of us had noticed it at around the same time.

Later on we went to the terminal and saw the statue. But it looked different and was in a slightly different place from where we remembered. We were weirded out.

But we kept walking to the place we saw the original statue and there was one there, too. So we could scrap the idea thta the statue was alive and changed it's perch, and concluded that ther are actually two statues.

The birds are about as tall as a person, and much larger overall. They aren't majestic birds either. They look like giant pigeons with flaking white paint on their wings. Why are they there.

I took some photos, but my SD card won't upload to my computer. Half the time, the computer will make a sound to acknowledge the card. An eighth of the time, an option will show up for me to open the card. But it didn't goive me an option to upload, and when I tried copy/pasting it only gave me a shortcut to the card itself, so I can't upload the images.

My camera reads the card half the time. My mother's computer could read the card, but mine can't. I don't know if I need a new camera, SD card, or computer.

Plus even trying to read the card crashed my computer twice, and I managed to do it successfully only once. I've been working at this for over an hour. Very irritating.

I saw a really ugly sunflower. Should have taken a photo of that. My neighbour that grows giant sunflowers was not as fortuitous this year as he was the last. Last year he grew flowers that were substantially taller than me. Like, maybe eight feet tall. This year, they are only as tall as me. The only one to have blossomed so far has petals growing from within the are that the seeds grow. Just awkward, random petals sprouting from the "face". Ugh...