Just to be clear, with this photo I did not want to make fun of this lady. I'm sure she wasn't talking to the stone lion, it's just the cut of the shot that makes it appear that there was a dialogue between her and the sculpture that never actually took place. I have a lot of respect for people who live on the margins of society because it can happen to anyone to become one of them. In this case, then, the lady is extremely dignified (probably more so than the tourists like me who photograph her) with her silver hair carefully gathered on her head and her nobility of character.