[AGL] Birds/lunch or art

[Kathy]

Mmm! ligustrum berry stuffed wax wings with mistletoe garnish !  A  
seasonal delicacy.   No, not really. It's because I am friends with  
Sharon Warren who does art of flower petals, insect wings and bird  
feathers of "found" dead critters  and  I'm  saving them for  her.   
But neither of us is willing to pluck them, so first we need to find  
someone not too squeamish with time on their hands to pull the  
feathers. It sure ain't gonna be  me.  Whenever we find a butterfly  
or other pretty winged critter or bright feather on the ground ( or  
in a car grill) we save them for her.
Here's a blurry image of one of her small simpler pieces which she  
gave to my son when we visited her studio. It's a little flower fairy  
with a feathered skirt. dancing on a blossom from her garden.
kathy
  
  
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On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Bill Irwin wrote:


> Nice snap of the birds.  But I gota ask why you are keeping some  

> dead ones

> in the freezer?  Got a good recipe for them?

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> From: "Kathy" <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com>

> To: "survivors' the 60s reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in"

> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:11 AM

> Subject: [AGL] Birds

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>>   A tree full of cedar wax wings.  They like, among other things,

>> ligustrum berries, which we have.   This was their 3rd visit to  our

>> yard, when the pickins were thin.  After the first visit we found 2

>> dead ones ( dead drunk) that are presently in my freezer. They are

>> beautiful with soft downy yellow bellies, bright yellow tips on their

>> tails and bright red tips on the wings ( males only I think)  I took

>> 6 pictures of the tree full of birds and in everyone the birds were

>> each facing in almost the same way so you cannot see the wing tips on

>> one of them.  What were they all watching- the big cinema in the

>> sky?   They don"t really twitter - make a high pitched sound instead-

>> it is easier to notice their arrival by the plop- plopping sounds

>> that accompany them.

>> kathy

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