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That sculpture is called The Wish Hounds. It's in Croft Wood, Swindon, Sussex. Lou Hamilton is the sculptor. There's some interesting information about it at:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1373949
When I put it up I didn't realize that Wish Hounds were scary creatures of Sussex legend. I thought of them as aspirational dogs, and I'll probably go on thinking of them that way.
Incidentally, if you mouse over most of the illustrations on this blog, text will come up. Sometimes it just says who took the photo and what the licensing is, and sometimes I feel compelled to add a snarky remark.
That'll make things a little less enigmatic, which may or may not be good....
Commented Oct 27, 2010 on Old, deaf, busy, important at The Nature of the Beast (according to Susan McCarthy)
Old, deaf, busy, important
Tag the Destroyer has a new bad habit. He goes to the side yard and barks. Bark bark bark bark. Pause. Bark bark bark bark. Pause. Bark bark bark bark. It's a strange pattern. He ignores our cries of rage and despair. Tag's getting deaf. He no longer barks at the loathsome package delivery truc...
It's seriously catchy.
Commented Oct 22, 2010 on Dinosaur sins at The Nature of the Beast (according to Susan McCarthy)
Dinosaur sins
It was morning. My spouse was dressing for the day. I was reading in bed, working through Kenneth Miller's Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution. “This is an interesting bar graph,” I said. “It shows a bunch of major living groups through time, and...
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Mar 15, 2010
Not mockerous enough? But maybe it was my fault. Not everyone can do the "when a daddy and mommy treeshrew love each other very much..." conversation in public, and I was standing around in what may have been a visibly negative manner. How could they know that my dark thoughts had to do with inadequate signage?
Commented Sep 14, 2009 on Like furry spoons at The Nature of the Beast (according to Susan McCarthy)
Like furry spoons
There were two northern treeshrews in a glass-fronted cage in the National Museum in Washington, DC. The female scampered along a tangle of branches, up, down, over, under, back, up, over, down, over, down, etc. I was busy myself, leaning on a wall and sneering at the sign. It identified the tre...
I don't know, but it's really true.
Maybe because museums and zoos are thought to be Educational For the Kids and we read to kids? Maybe because we are subconsciously resentful that we know so little about birds and beasts that we feel compelled to show that at least we can read? Maybe because we, hmmm, are filled with a vague desire to communicate when we behold these creatures, and we displace that into conversation with the exhibit by means of reading?
Got me.
Commented Sep 6, 2009 on Like furry spoons at The Nature of the Beast (according to Susan McCarthy)
Like furry spoons
There were two northern treeshrews in a glass-fronted cage in the National Museum in Washington, DC. The female scampered along a tangle of branches, up, down, over, under, back, up, over, down, over, down, etc. I was busy myself, leaning on a wall and sneering at the sign. It identified the tre...
Like a bullet with your name on it, tied up in moire ribbon.
Commented Jun 30, 2009 on Nature is greenish in mandible and tarsus at The Nature of the Beast (according to Susan McCarthy)
Nature is greenish in mandible and tarsus
In turbulent times, I may turn to the garden for solace and calm, as on a recent afternoon. Fondly I gazed on the gigantic rose bush. (An old Cecile Brunner, with small fragrant flowers: it needs no fertilizer, no insecticides, no watering; it simply goes about growing, blooming, and taking over...
I thought about drawing the parallel, but I wanted to keep it short...
Commented May 29, 2009 on Where did I get this bracelet? It's a long story. at The Nature of the Beast (according to Susan McCarthy)
Where did I get this bracelet? It's a long story.
Curiosity killed the cat. I never heard exactly how. But The History of Borough Fen Decoy, written by Tony Cook & R.E.M. Pilcher, explains how curiosity killed a lot of ducks. With the help of some dogs. A decoy, in this sense, is not a fake duck meant to encourage real ducks to fly down and jo...
Portuguese water dingo? Staffordshire bull dingo? Pekeadingo? Dingoranian!
Commented May 17, 2009 on I certainly hope you brought enough for everybody at The Nature of the Beast (according to Susan McCarthy)
I certainly hope you brought enough for everybody
Long long ago, people brought dingoes to Fraser Island, a big sand island off eastern Australia. The dingoes went wild and self-supporting. Nowadays, dingoes in most of Australia have had the chance to breed with more recently imported dogs. (Don't get silly. I do not speak of the dingopoo, the ...
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