Goodness me.
Ruby Crowned Kinglette just informed me that my owl doesn't have a leaf and a stem, but, when turned upside right, my owl has a wing and a tail.
That's right, I had the plate upside down.
Maybe it was the green wing that tricked me into thinking it was a leaf. Perhaps it was Halloween-brain that turned the tail into a pumpkin-y stem. The mystery as to why I couldn't see the owl, until it was pointed out to me, may never be solved.
Of course, now there is no mystery as to what the creator was going for. I have completely fallen in love with this plate! Oh, it is the neatest owl depiction yet. And, now it's perched on my monitor stand proper-like, and not hanging upside down like some kind of vampire owl.
Although vampire owls are a cool idea...
How crazy is it that the card accompanying my gifts was reversible? Now it's like some cosmic joke. From now on, I'll be sure to turn things upside down when they are perplexing me ... you never know when upside down is really upside right.