This wooden character caught our eye… always a good start.
It is a wooden sculpture of St Dogmael in St Dogmaels about a mile west of Cardigan.
The sculpture is by John Clarke and dates from 2002, commissioned to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
It is located near the lower end of St Dogmaels’s Abbey.
Watch your step. There is a duck pond adjacent to the sculpture!
St Dogmaels village has lots to offer the photographer/tourist. According to Dyfed Archaeological Trust it is “a very distinctive historic landscape character“.
Enjoy the Photos in the Gallery here.
As it is National Whale & Dolphin Watch Week 2008 we thought now is a good time to publish a photo of a Leaping Dolphin sculpture!
Thus we have uploaded photos of the Leaping Dolphin wooden sculpture at Aberporth village, near Cardigan.
In the Gallery in the S + M section here.
For more information on whale and dolphin spotting, take a peek at the Sea Watch Foundation website.
Postscript : One of the most depressing sights of the summer is the sight of people putting their ugly oily machines in the sea so that they can race about on show creating a lot of noise. The pollution caused by these useless toys threatens the natural habitat of many species, not just the bottlenose dolphins.
We have sailed in the frothy, bubbly blogging seas for too long without any MAPS.
Everything changes this weekened.
Aberdare Blog gives birth to a wee cartographical offering…
The S & M Map of Wales lists all our photos of Sculptures and Monuments from across Wales.
Mario Rutelli’s War Memorial at Aberystwyth is the most spectacular Welsh war memorial.
There is a collection of photos of the Memorial in the Gallery. Judge with your own eyes, or better still visit it yourself.
Who was the model ? Answers on a postcard if you know, please.
Welsh historian Gwyn Williams described it vividly : “I know people who still go round the point on which it stands to view once more what is thought to be the finest backside in Cardiganshire“. (’The Land Remembers’, Futura, London 1977).
Spot on Mr Williams.
Honestly Guv, we’re not militarist, war-loving type people… we are latter day peaceniks. The snaps are just because we love bronze sculptures. Look there, we have Henry Richard and Keir Hardie, both pacifists.
Thus our conscience does battle with the fact we spend much of our blogging time discussing imagery of war sculptures and memorials.
Photos of Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart are now available in the Gallery.
The sculpture is situated in Gorsedd Gardens, opposite the National Museum of Wales, in Cardiff.
The sculptor was Sir William Goscombe John.
