Thursday, May 10, 2012

Day 19: Itty Bitty Cardinal


For my Great Grandma Gooding

This little guy is about the size of a thumbnail (painted on a grey macaw parrot feather). Great Grandma Gooding collected cardinals. She lived into her 90s and most presents that I saw given to her during the time that I knew her had something to do with cardinals, thus she had all sorts of collectables housewares decorated with red birds. They are beautiful birds that pop against Ohio's winter snow. Did she have as much of a passion for them as those who gave her gifts assumed or hoped? It often happens that when one mentions that they like a particular thing, loved ones will glom onto that idea because they want to give gifts, but are unsure of what is privately meaningful in one’s life. Before you know it, you’ve acquired a collection of something that you were simply happy to admire and enjoy in its natural state, but had no need to own. How many collections start that way?  

Length of Feather:  1/2”     
SOLD

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