Cold Children

This little statue at a school in my neighborhood doubtless is meant to evoke a simpler time. The pious, sentimental quotation on the plaque with the donors' names is along those lines. But somehow the thing has always seemed a bit mawkish, even creepy to me.

The snow and the light today gave it a nice Dickensian feel, so I took the photo and "bleached" out some of the color.