Photo of the Week: Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon

Building mural shows Martha the passenger pigeon leads a flock of passenger pigeons

What a gorgeous mural! I saw Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon earlier this month while walking in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio on my way to the public library.

Part of the ArtWorks Cincinnati project, the mural is a reproduction of a piece by John A. Ruthven. In the mural, Martha and her flock of Passenger Pigeons fly over the historic Bird Run at the Cincinnati Zoo. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon

Photo of the Week: Murals in the Market at Eastern Market

Black and white lion with piercing blue eyes surrounded by whimsical cartoon charaters

If you didn’t know to travel down a back alley to peer across an empty field surrounded by three buildings, you might have missed the two-story tall lion mural on the building at the edge of Detroit’s Eastern Market. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Murals in the Market at Eastern Market