[AGL] Birds/lunch or art

[michele mason]

There was no photo on my email. Why not?  mm

On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:


> 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.

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

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

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> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 11:03 PM

> Subject: Re: [AGL] Birds/lunch or art

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>> 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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