Cows on Parade!

I swear to God that I wrote a post about the art cows in Boston this summer, but I searched my blog and found nothing. Weird.

Anyway, I am super excited because, yes, there are cows in Boston!!! I was first introduced to the phenomenon of Cow Parade in Luxembourg City back in the spring of 2001. My friend Kelley and I used the cows as our way of exploring the city. If we spotted a cow we'd never seen before, that's the way we headed. It was great.

I'm also very excited about the contest on Hey Let's Go: Cow Safari. And, for every cow picture uploaded to the site, $1 is donated to the Jimmy Fund. I know what I'm doing this weekend! (in between rain storms, that is). There's even an interactive cow map, showing where to find cows, and also which ones are still unphotographed (on the site, anyway).

And for all my friends and family back in Wisconsin, do not despair! Madison has also been overrun with cows this summer.

Other places around the world with being visited by Cow Parade include: Paris, Edinburgh (Lori and Matt -- take photos for me!), Lisbon, Athens, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Telemark (in Norway ... I had to look it up), and Belo Horizonte (in Brazil ... had to look that one up too).

I was downtown yesterday and saw a few of the cows. They're boo-tiful. I didn't have my camera with me, though, so I'll have to go back.

On the work front: I've been very busy re-organizing and archiving historical information about the organization and homelessness on a local and national level. It's really quite interesting.

OK, enough goofing off. Back to the archives!