My friend Jan, of the breakfast group, sent me this most exquisite card featuring a chickadee done in the art form of Quilling.
Quilling is an ancient art form using tightly coiled narrow strips of paper glued and arranged into designs and images. This card was made by an artisan in Viet Nam.
Chickadees are a special favorite of mine. They flit and flutter to the bird feeder outside my window. Not gluttonous, they land on the feeder, take one sunflower chip, and fly back to the maple tree to eat it, and then return for another. I try to tell them that they should just hang out on the feeder like the finches, bush tits, sparrows, and pine siskins do, but they have their own way. I don't hear their "chickadee-dee-dee" call much in the winter but they are vociferous in spring and summer.
Of course I have a chickadee collection, a small one, on a wall in my kitchen.
There are few more around, as people know I like them and give them to me as gifts. Eventually we'll find a frame for this card and hang it up too.
You have a great collection of chickadees. I like to watch them go back and forth from the feeder. I hope you are still recuperating.
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