Tourist Magnet

Among the pictures I took yesterday...up on the hill...were some of tourists taking
pictures...it seems...of anything that might make...for them...a good talking point
...when they got back home. Are the pictures taken in these situations...some sort of
status ritual...to show the exotic places you've been to?. Who ultimately knows...
although you might hazard a guess or two. These three...are not tourists who
were fossilized forever...for taking too many predictable posed pictures. Actually...
there is a fourth member of this bronze batallion...he is standing next to where I
took this picture from. Can anyone guess what he is doing...he is taking a picture of
his three unmoving mates!. Yesterday...there were tourists coalescing around these
four...taking the cue of the frozen photographer...to take more pictures of the other three...with one or two of their flesh and blood companions...inserted in the gaps
between the figures. I'm sure the sculptor who created these four figures...most
probably...had a sense of the ironies hovering around the four figures. I wonder if he or she dreamed of the number of tourists through the years...who would take pictures of his or her four long standing progeny...to their homes far across the sea.....
,,,,,,,,,,,,,Quester.