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Monday, August 27, 2007
When I visited the chateaux and vineyards in BordeauxI was knocked over by the profusion of stone lions everywhere.
No wonder! The kingly lion is sitting right on Bordeaux' coat of arms.
As well as guarding so many entry ways of the finest chateaux..
For example at Chateau Haut-Brion...
Now here's a funny thing...
Where I live, in Astoria, NY
(just 9 minutes from Bloomingdales on the N train
and the most multi-culti town in the USA)
there is a profusion of stone LIONS!
38th street is particularly littered with these stone lions!
Only between Broadway and 34th Avenue,
in case you should go looking for a pride or two...
This has set me thinking...
Have some Bordeauxoise winemakers moved to Astoria? ? ?
Will we soon see some vineyards springing up on my turf?
Did I mention that Bordeaux is also inundated with stone sphinxes?
The French sphinx has a coiffed head and the bust of a young woman.
Often she is wearing ear drops and pearls
and her body is naturalistically rendered as a recumbent lion.
Chateau Margaux has an impressive pair guarding their stairway entry.
Chateaux de Malle makes a lovely Sauturnes, well protected by
a brace of sphinx.
I'm wondering when, exactly an infusion of sphinxes are coming to Astoria?
As well as guarding so many entry ways of the finest chateaux..For example at Chateau Haut-Brion...
Now here's a funny thing...Where I live, in Astoria, NY
(just 9 minutes from Bloomingdales on the N train
and the most multi-culti town in the USA)
there is a profusion of stone LIONS!
38th street is particularly littered with these stone lions!
Only between Broadway and 34th Avenue, in case you should go looking for a pride or two...
This has set me thinking...Have some Bordeauxoise winemakers moved to Astoria? ? ?
Will we soon see some vineyards springing up on my turf?Did I mention that Bordeaux is also inundated with stone sphinxes?
The French sphinx has a coiffed head and the bust of a young woman.
Often she is wearing ear drops and pearls
and her body is naturalistically rendered as a recumbent lion.
Chateau Margaux has an impressive pair guarding their stairway entry.Chateaux de Malle makes a lovely Sauturnes, well protected bya brace of sphinx.
I'm wondering when, exactly an infusion of sphinxes are coming to Astoria?Could they please come to my street?
We could definitely use a few sphinxes on 31st Avenue :)
We could definitely use a few sphinxes on 31st Avenue :)
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