Stripygoose's Blog (275)

Well, wouldn't you be excitied if this was on your doorstep? And I managed to restrain myself and take the unopened envelope to the community art group I go to for a ceremonial opening on one Wednesday night...

As well as two contrasting…

That gal has a mighty fine sense of humour. Thank you Carina and for all the other goodies in the envelope. You've cheered up my letter box. See you soon in the post :>)

Well, we could ponder on that question... and on the reverse an atmospheric watercolour.

This one is delightful - and haunting. Thank you. Sorry for the mix-up. It was the legs on the envelope that fooled me. See you soon in the post…

message received with gratitude

Page one of an unmistakable frank smith book - minimalist, to the point and calm. Thank you. See you soon/eventually in the post :>)

"flyinh bird of golden eyes" a spiritual and philosophical beauty from martha. Bhuddists say the bird has one wing compassion and thr other wing wisdom - both are needed to fly.

And in neat recognition of the chicken series a classic…

Secrets, secrets, secrets - can we be trusted with them? What would we do if we were? All of these questions are posed in the musings on the back of the card. Plus a rather haunting Scott:snowblind at the south pole - 

Thank…

Thank you Suus for commemorating our meeting at the Natural History Museum in London!

Did I ever blog this and thank you for it Suus? I'm experiencing a bit of mail-art muddle. Anyway - and this is a message to all - just because I haven't blogged/replied yet, doesn't mean your mail-art is unloved - all in good time :->

I'm going back a bit here, but now's the time to thank Katerina for the mailart haul. The first chicken-related milart to come my way, in acknowledgement of my on-going 365 plus a whole stache of chickeny stuff for me to use. Generosity indeed. And then bananas - to mark Banana Lovers Day, and as a huge…

A strange bird/insect creature has made its way to London from Paris, but sadly lost an eye on the way. Thank you Dean. But I am a bit worried about those antennae!

On the last count I have had messages that 121 of the 365 birds have arrived safely. Check them out here:  bird arrivals blog

A new 365 has started on this shared blog: the chicken series

1/365.3 stripy…

Thank you Antonia Mayol Castello for "Spring in the red mailbox'. Love it - a classic! :>)

You can watch the migration event here: birds take flight

8/365.2 party time

365 birds migration

bird arrivals blogged here

220/365.2 bird with blue hair

15 of the 365 have arrived at their destinations - that means as many as 350 are still flapping their way round the globe.

Check out the arrivals here:

365 birds migration and…

on Saturday May 14th 2016

International Migratory Bird Day!

bird arrival migration page