The World on Their Shoulders

Continuing with the people - that is, the stone people - of Prague, I present the long-suffering loadbearers of the city, or at least some of them:

 Some take to the task with apparent equanimity:

 

others with dumb resignation:

as always, some men loll about while the Sheilas do all the heavy lifting:

while, among those who do shoulder the burden themselves, some cope considerably better than others: