Garden Sculpture

One of my favorite quilt-supply shops is attached to a local tile shop (both stores are apparently owned and run by the same family). The area around the door that joins the two stores has little garden knick-knacks and giftware. Among them were metal flamingo sculptures with metal legs, wings, necks and head - but brightly-coloured ceramic bodies. The flamingo's feet weren't terribly large, and so the sculptures were a little unsteady. Two had fallen over and their ceramic bodies shattered.

The tile shop owner wouldn't have been pleased with this, of course, but wasn't about to send those birds back to the manufacturer/artist. Instead, he reduced the price and hung a little paper sign on one. The sculptures, honestly, looked a little sad - but when I saw the sign that clever shopkeeper put on them, well, I had to have them.

Here they are, standing in the Secret Garden:


And here's the sign that sold them:

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WASSUP?

• What I’m listening to: "You Have to Be There" by Susan Boyle
  
• What’s for tea: Lean Cuisine (poor Stephen....)
  
• What I’m reading: "What Einstein Told His Cook" by Robert L. Wolke (ironic, isn't it?)
  
• Wine recommendation: uh... if we're eating Lean Cuisine.. seems a bit indulgent to have wine...
  
• What's the season?: spring in Oz, fall in the U.S.