When the leaves come down, you may see things you never noticed before. This face decorates a stone planter that looks like perhaps it may have formally been a fountain. The planter sits in the road at an intersection in North Andover which I pass on my commute. I estimate that I've passed by this 1,500 times before on my bicycle and quite a few times on foot. I've also passed by it many times in a car. I don't remember noticing it before and I certainly have never stopped to look at it. The inscription on the planter includes the words "native town", donated by a citizen to the town many years ago. What exactly is the face? Suggestive of a lion. There are two stone lions not too far from my house which I considered a landmark when I explored the neighborhood. Sadly one of them was destroyed this year. I may photograph the surviving one later on for this series.
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