At the Cloisters

This 15th-century limewood carving of Jesus
on a Palmesel (German for palm donkey)
was used in Palm Sunday processions reenacting
Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on a donkey.
(One curious thing about this statue: I don't
 think I've ever seen Jesus depicted with
 a receding hairline—have you?)

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Shadow Shot Sunday

Can't imagine why I'd never visited The Cloisters
(maybe because it's way up there in the Bronx),
but finally went last weekend and it was
as wonderful as I knew it would be—kind of
 like traveling all the way to Europe on the A train.

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