Monochrome Monday

This week's Monochrome Monday photo is a street performer who works as a living statue; we saw her yesterday in Fanueil Hall. Here though, she is a little out of character in the subway on her way home. Follow this link to see other Monochrome Maniacs and their pictures this week.

Living Statue

Fanueil Hall living statue will smile for tips.

Samuel Eliot Morrison

Bronze statue on a granite base of Samuel Eliot Morrison located on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, between Exeter and Fairfield Streets. Circular platform at foot of sculpture includes bronze casts of shells, starfish, and crabs, as if at the ocean's edge. Sculpture by Penelope Jencks.

Commemorates Samuel Eliot Morison, historian, sailor and two-time Pulitzer prize winning author. Morison researched and personally retraced the route Columbus took to the New World, and later documented Columbus' adventures and translated Columbus' log in his epic work, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea."

Living Statue

A living statue on the bridge in the Public Garden.

Downtown Crossing Street Performer

Street performer at the corner of Washington and Summer Streets. This is the same street performer Fenix caught at Fanueil Hall in October, though then she was clad all in gold (the street performer, not Fenix:). Click here to see the street performer in her golden costume.

Mime on Boston Common

A mime, wearing a costume made entirely of recycled objects performed on Boston Common. Her costume was very cleverly done and her "donation" basket was an old portable tv set. She wrote notes on sheets of toilet paper for those who left donations. Note the toilet paper roll hanging off her belt, next to the egg carton.