[AGL] Birds/lunch or art

[Fontaine Maverick]

I knew a woman who did art with the clean bones of small animals. She lived 
somewhere near that big bat cave(near Llanno, I think). She'd take the road 
kill to the cave, leave it there for a few weeks to let the beetles clean 
them for her. Or so she said.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy" <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Birds/lunch or art



> 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:

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>> 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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>> ----- Original Message -----

>> 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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