Chicken Paintings!

I get a surprising number of e-mails from people who want to know when I'm going to do some more chicken paintings.  Well, good news:  I've got a series of them going up at Lost Coast Daily Painters over the next few weeks.  I usually post on Tuesday, so go check it out if you're interested.  As an experiment, I'm starting bidding at only 99 cents!  What a crazy deal.

And -- yes -- all the paintings are of Eleanor, our Rhode Island Red (seen here in upper right, jostling for position with Abigail for the preferred nesting box on a day when all four of them got eggy at once).  I'm sad to tell you that Eleanor died a few weeks ago--our first hen death.  To our complete surprise, she had cancer--and lots of it--which was discovered after the bird vet put her to sleep and then opened her up to take a look.   We're very sad about it but we're glad she didn't suffer long.  I think the other chickens miss her, too--it's really thrown off their social life to have her gone.

So I've done a series of portraits of Eleanor as a tribute.  She was a fine, dignified hen who didn't go in for tricks and hi-jinks like the other birds do.  She was more of a true barnyard animal, more interested in laying eggs and digging for worms than goofing off and acting like a pet.

Comments

[Shana]

I'm so sorry to read of Eleanor's death. It's wonderful to know you will be doing a tribute for her.

[Ellie]

This is completely off topic, but I read Flower Confidencial. (My mother in-law sent it to me.) It was okay. I've been a florist for a while and a horticulturalist longer. I was sorely disapointed you didn't go to Colombia.

I learned Spanish and then went to Colombia this year. It was absolutely beautiful and I plan to go back and am considering moving there. If you get the chance to go to Colombia in the future, I recomend you take it. You could be one of the people who recommends Colombia rather than continue to muddy it's reputation.

[bren]

This is why I have you marked as one of my favorite blogs! LOVE IT!!! THe chicks are great.

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