{A shared affinity with a Giant hummingbird (Patagona gigas).}
{....but then again. We'll have to wait and see.}
Because lately I can't fathom where the Time has gone. In cahoots with Days, though I've the map, I've been given the slip. Months spin fast like a whirligig. Truth Cats wear sunglasses, and pose before coloured velour and satin backcloths (Show cats, I through XI, you exquisite beauties, how I adore you). Baron's court Princesses, when not flying on canon balls. Artists' books are made in part from everyday garments (Art of the Cuff). Feathers fly, and inky mishaps occur. Waxworks become fantastically real. And while the cat's away, the dog, as they say, will try his paw at directing.
Spinning in the middle of all this activity, World Ballet Day, a fluttering celebration for my carefree pins. (Two collages of moving parts created for my own amusement and your enjoyment.)
{Happy #WorldBalletDay, dear @ausballet. #PowerToTransform}
{The gentlest of owls. the Laughing owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). Last recorded sighting July, 1914. "It could always be brought from its lurking place in the rocks, after dusk, by the strains of an accordion....the bird would silently flit over the face of the performer and finally take up its station in the vicinity, and remain within easy hearing till [the music] had ceased." —Sir Walter Buller, New Zealand ornithologist}
{In accord with an animal who has black currants for eyes. (The central Australian Desert Rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) was last seen in 1935.)}
{In harmony with the Seychelles parakeet (Psittacula wardi). (The last recorded sighting of the Seychelles parakeet was June 1870. Little is known of its habits, save for a fondness for maize.)}
{Thursday's costume, a dragon with scales of overlapping gold and silver sequins. (Designed by Travis Banton for actress Anna May Wong in her role as Tu Tuan, a nightclub entertainer in the 1934 film, Limehouse Blues.)}
{Florence Hunter's felt a connection with the Guadalupe caracara (Polyborus lutosus). Now extinct, the last recorded sighting of the Guadalupe caracara was on the 1st December 1900 by collector Rollo Beck. Upon visiting the Guadalupe Island, off Baja, California, he saw eleven birds fly overhead, and shot nine of them.}
Donna Maree Haby
28.07.1966 – 22.09.2015
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