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One of the first things you notice when you see
her, is the disconcerting way her gaze seems to kind of follow you from
every angle. In the pictures, you can see how even her facial expression
looks different from every angle, it's crazy! I have no idea how long
it's been there, or who created it, or anything (I actually plan to go
back and check it out some more, maybe I'll be able to find out
somethin'). Standing imposingly tall- maybe 10...12 feet or so- in a
strip of grass on a roadside, it's all carved from a
single tree trunk which is still rooted in the ground, and her flowing
dress and folded wings have been painted or stained white.
My aunt gave me
these pics of the Angel, and right away we noticed some very odd things
in some of them. One shot has a really
large orb floating near the Angel's head, and a
few orbs seem to be floating around in another. A weird streaky
shape shows up in yet another
shot, and one pic has an odd
overlapping of the background scenery over the Angel (you can actually see
the fence that is behind her superimposed over the front
of her, which is kinda bizarre). And in one shot, there actually seems
to be a blurred and winged
shape of the Angel kind of swooping behind the figure itself!
As I said, we don't know anything about the
origins of this mysterious Angel... and somehow, that only makes it all
the more intriguing. And it sure is quite a sight the first time you
drive down the road at dusk, and see this white, robed being standing as
if waiting by the roadside... you can almost imagine her uprooting her
trunk from the earth and treading toward you with a creaking wooden
groan...
*Special thanks to Uncle Rick for giving
us the heads up about this roadside icon!*
Do you have any background information or stories to tell about this
mysterious figure?
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