Topic: Show and Tell.....another beautiful M. Janku piece....signed.

[Paul S.]

quote from Rosie .............."(and a good guess from Paul S. Wink )".    No guess  -  it's just that I'm good with birds with a lot of neck      Like all these artistic pieces, it's a very stylized production  -  in reality the cormorant's beak terminates in a hook  -  but then who wants reality in art.

[Cathy B]

I thought cormorants were shags?

[wolkenreb]

    The common cormorant or shag
    Lays eggs inside a paper bag
    The reason you will see no doubt
    It is to keep the lightning out
    But what these unobservant birds
    Have never noticed is that herds
    Of wandering bears may come with buns
    And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.

[Paul S.]

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs Mother  -  I'd have laid money on that being Lear, and instead it's Isherwood - wonderful and thanks very much Nancy, it is just the thing to
get me going on a drab Sunday morning.              I am a fan of his, but really only for the Berlin stories (disappointed to find out he was batting for the same side).
Just to make life difficult, there are, apparently, two separate species within the cormorant family - one called a cormorant, and the other a shag - and it seems they are not easy to differentiate (unless I suppose you are a shag or cormorant ) 
But think they have perhaps interchangeable names in other parts of the globe.           Isn't Kevin our resident ornithologist?

[Paul S.]

quote from Cathy..............."I thought cormorants were shags?"..........and this is where I probably get kicked out........
so Cathy, you mean I've had it wrong all these years, and what I should have been saying at bedtime was  'd'you fancy a cormorant' :wsh:

[rosieposie]

You skate on thin ice this morning Paul.......bearing in mind 'Beavers' were not allowed.......be afraid, be very afraid!!

Anyway, I've got a signed hedgehog now as well.....and if anyone mentions  the prick(le)s, there will be a riot!

I'm off to see if there is anything interesting in the Café :wsh:

[johnphilip]

Rosie and Paul thats two of you i have to complain about now , old  MR Boring  will be busy  :thup:

[chriscooper]

Think Anik may like this one.....

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-cTaHjpwNMWI/TtedaEWAHYI/AAAAAAAAUuc/QUP9ljp42lI/s512/SDC10883.JPG

Vladislav Urban for Hermanova ? information gleaned from Astrid's Picasa album thanks  :sun:

Rosie love the Shag and the Hedgehogs none too shabby either nice finds.

Chris :sun:

[rosieposie]

Thanks Chris  :kissy: The Cormorant was a bargain,  but I think I paid all the money for the hedgehog....but with the two Foxes, I am now getting a nice collection....although I am still sulking over missing the turquoise Ram.  :cry:
Oh yes, and I like the vase as well...........is it neodymium?

[chriscooper]

Looks like it should be but no it's not, sorry for the photo hijack feeling guilty for missing your Birthday Anik :cry:


Chris :sun: