Will the real Harry Potter please stand up?

"Ya, right, and I'm Minnie Mouse . . ."

Blogging Sherburne

Sherburne has a pretty remarkable collection of murals, for such a small town. Of course, this first picture doesn't show a mural-- although you can see some nearly-worn-off lettering on this building if you zoom in close. I included it because I just like the way this building looks. Plus, you can see where the Chenango Canal used to run in a curved path between the two buildings, and if you look down through the space, there are loading doors in both buildings where goods used to be taken on and off the canal boats. Living history!

Okay, now we're ready for murals and other, um, painted objects. Here we have what may be the only gas tank camouflaged as a grinder (sub, hoagie, whatever) in Central New York.

This is the newest addition to the town mural collection. I love it, of course, because I love Band Pageant -- after all, who doesn't love Band Pageant? But I do worry about what's going to happen if that fire engine and the marching band both keep going on their present paths. Also, I wonder how the recognizable Sherburne residents in this one like being memorialized on a wall!

This one is my favorite. Can't you feel the breeze?

From across the street, it's pretty convincing!  

Sadly, this one is peeling pretty badly. I hope the Big M has it touched up soon, or it'll soon be gone. Notice that there's a cat in the left-hand window, but the blithely-singing bird in the upper right-hand window isn't a bit worried about it. Maybe the windows lead into two different rooms.

Who ARE these people?

Greenpeace

"The US publisher Scholastic is one of the largest Harry Potter publishers globally," said our resident book wizard Judy Rodrigues. "If they had printed the book on 100 percent recycled paper, like Raincoast, its 10.8 million print run could have saved 217,475 mature trees."

The idiots at Greenpeace are telling us that it takes a whole "mature" tree to make 50 copies of the latest Harry Potter. I don't think so.

Recycling is a waste of energy, human and otherwise, anyway.

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