My post is for SMAP#75 contest, hosted by @nelinoeva.
Its me in the photo. My dad took this photo 4 years ago during our sea travel, we found a proper use for the nice seagull feathers that we collected at the coastal stones when exploring an island during one of our stops. They can also be used to do calligraphy, but of course not during the travel, not in the travel conditions.
Those were a good memories from the past... Now we have rainy weather, its not the time to go outside for feathers. Right now I spend in the country my three-month vacation from school - until the very end of summer.
We have some of birds around. Blackbirds visit our place from time to time - they watch how the berries ripen on the bushes, and prepare to gobble up our entire harvest of "wine berries" (in Latin: Amelanchier sanguinea), exactly as they did last year. Sparrows hang out with us all the time - we feed them with a wheat bread crumbles. And all the time I hear the conversations of magpies, they hang out at a neighbouring site and visit our site from time to time too, sometimes they leave their well-distinguished black-and-white feathers for us as a keepsake.
But now, as I already told you, it's raining, and I don't want to go outside to look for feathers in a wet grass :)
I have something at home, as well. Look:
Can you guess what it is? I dont know a proper English name for it, will try to google it...
Ah! after some takes I find a proper word: a wind-chime, that is it.
These are win-chimes somebody have made, not me - the source is Pinterest. You can google it for more creative ideas, what you can create wind-chimes from.
Source: http://pinterest.com/pin/1618549858682685, http://pinterest.com/pin/68740332637/
This certain wind-chime our friend presented us. His family spent the summer holydas at the Corfu island, Greece, and they used all this marvelous stuff washed up by the tide on the seashore stones: bleached by sea water curved trees branches, small water-polished stones with a hole, mollusk shells, seaweed tufts ... and a few bird feathers that they found near their lended house.
If you question yourself how all these things hold together? -- well, they are tied with a thin transparent fishing line.
I do not know whom exactly these feathers belong to, but I am certain they were not shared by pigeons. My mom says she is pretty sure it could be owl feathers.
Oh, and have a look at another intresting pieces... these are from my mom
This one is the biggest - althought it maybe do not look so splendid in the photo, believe me, it is! A big birdie feather, that my friend pick up from the Zoo, and adjusted it to serve for calligraphy as well!
When I write with such a pen, I experience unusual sensations, I even travel a little in time. And don't forget to thank Big Bird.
Ok, thanks for your vizit dear friends. I hope you enjoyed my little story and the pics, and will support my post.
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