Reading Can Set You Free

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
— Frederick Douglass

It is a cold blustery day here in Colorado. I was at my son's school volunteering and this statue outside the school caught my eye. Luckily, I had my camera on me and snapped this shot! I love this statue! It symbolizes so much!

[Caren]

This is such a great shot, I really like the B&W and all the little snow flakes falling.

[Wendy]

@shortperson2002 Thank you! I did get a little wet taking this photo! It's still snowing outside even now!

[Denise]

Very nice shot.

[Jeff Drongowski]

Nice work here, the contrast is perfect.

[Carole Neesam]

Lovely capture x

[Rick Schies]

A neat statue and so well placed.

[Alex]

great capture

[Just Mom]

I think capturing it in black & white really makes the shot. Very nice. :-)

[Joe Ciras]

That is a good capture. I like that one of the boys has his arm around the other one.

[Kass]

I love the contrasts. Very nice, Wendy!

[molizard]

wonderful statue! nice pic with the snow!

[Kimberly Mitchell]

I really like this. Something about the snow adds so much!

[Sarah White]

I love how the snow reminds me of a blanket wrapped around their shoulders. What a fantastic statue to have outside a school and what an incentive to children too.

[Kirsty McLaughlan]

Wow, this is so lovely. It's good to see statues like this in front of schools, there should be more of them.

[Thom Mitchell]

[There's also the quote attributed to Mark Twain that's on a book bag, "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't."] Really nice shot, Wendy, and the B&W is totally effective!

[Wendy]

@rhoing Thank you! Love the Mark Twain quote too, thank you for that!

[Wendy]

@denisedaly @drongo3 @redfl83 @digitalrn @mednez @justmom @cirasj @russianblue @molizard @callalilla @coolgirlsar @kirsty1975 Thank you all for your wonderful comments! I really appreciate them!

[Kathleen]

A gentler childhood, before X-Box, World of War Craft, PSP etc...

[Wendy]

@kaydot So true! Thank you!

[Judith Greenwood]

Lovely shot - every school should have that statue!

[Shirley Chetwynd]

so beautiful

[April Resa]

Oh this is beautiful! Great contrast

[Rustic Reflections (Kelli)]

This is really beautiful!

[Jamie Carlo]

Beautiful!!! i love love love this one!!

[Paula Fontanini]

Beautiful image and perfect quote to go with it!

[Stefan Eady]

Well portrayed. I love statue images and the way the snow highlights this makes the shot.

[★Namthip]

This is a really really great shot!

[Jay]

Beautiful indeed!

[Chris Sutton]

Nice capture. The snow almost looks like the boys are wareing capes.