Well, here's the seven.
This is from the turn of the century, not 2000 but 1900 - actually around 1902. Isn't it lovely; it's become a favourite. I remember as a kid always looking for a four-leaf clover, for that little bit of extra luck and you would find them because as a kid you would be digging around the earth, looking at the goings-on in the grass and flowerbeds. I used to have one pressed in my wallet. Here's to the luck of the Irish.
Methinks this is a thrush of some sort - gray-cheeked, swainson's, hermit or wood - a robin is of the thrush family. My money's on the hermit. In "A Field Guide To The Birds" by Roger Tory Peterson he writes of the thrush family - "Often fine singers." - well, that's to the point.
"Walser House Pin" is what's on the card. A little tourist doo-dah. It's based on the windows in the Walser house that Wright designed in Chicago.
A friend found this in a secondhand shop; it's my first ark pin. And it's well suited. I love birds and the noble elephant is my fave animal. The Ark - well I get motion sick so I wouldn't have been one of the 2 redheads allowed on board.
Found this on a toot up North - well Renfrew County is north to me. I have a penchant for sprays of flowers brooches. I like muchly the etched metal and the pearly globes.
This is actually a tie pin but it sits prettily on a thick sweater - especially needed this winter. Can't you see the bird flying full tilt across the sky.
My friend Carol spent a few glorious weeks in Paris, in the Springtime - sigh! I gave her a request to find an Eiffel Tower pin of the ilk that I have dangling around my bedside lampshade. Alas, none to be found, but my intrepid friend found this one for me. Another interpretation of my favourite structure, and in shades of pink no less.
