This was an amazing week for mail. This little surprise showed up, a co-production of
Blaize and
Bethany. Blaize found the amazing brooch in
Bethany's Etsy shop and Bethany packaged it like a pro. Isn't it gorgeous!? I *love* the book-page leaves. Thank you!
This golden beauty spurred me into collecting all my owl pictures. Once I got looking, I was surprised I had so many. I thought I just had two or three. I took this one in 2003 on a trip to NYC. Isn't it awesome? I'd love to him guarding my windows. To see all my architectural owl photos (and an awesome gold owl graffiti) check out
my Flickr.
I don't know when my love of owls started, but I suspect it has something to do with Winnie the Pooh. I loved those stories. There was also the tootsie pop owl. I also recall having a time-telling toy that was a yellow and brown plastic owl with a clock on his stomach (I couldn't find a picture online ...).
Then there was the clock-work owl in
Clash of the Titans, which was awesome. There are the owls in Twin Peaks, which are the best as far as being scary and other-worldly. And the replicant owl in Blade runner is wonderful, too.
There was an owl living in a tree near our apartment in San Francisco and there was one living outside the building at my last job. I loved hearing them hoot all day and night. Can you get owls as pets? Maybe it's time to go visit the zoo and get some up-close owl-time.