Giant bonsai (and other giants)

It was a shorter walk that usual today. Somebody stole the sun (I suspect the Doctor), and I wasn't feeling too great after five hours at the library. But I did realise I'd been walking past this every day for nearly a year and never noticed how much it looked like a giant bonsai tree:

 

 I know a bonsai isn't actually a particular plant, but there's something artful about this one and it looks like maybe a giant spent a few decades pruning it in a small tray to make it so square and pretty.

Speaking of giants...

 

This statue is about ten feet tall. I suspect it was a stone giantess who fell into a pit of invisible lava and then her bottom half melted but she saved her baby by holding him out of the water, but then he looked directly at the lighthouse monster and turnes to stone anyway, so that was a shame. But then some passing architect who appreciated the sacrifice decided to build a university around her so that everybody would know, except that he didn't give her a plaque or anything so only people with extreme insight (like me) will ever know the true story of the so-called 'statue'.

I'm finding it very difficult to go a whole post without mentioning lava.