The mounds of snow are shrinking that are all around the bird feeder. It is 35° F. and I can hear water trickling down our eave drain pipes. There is a very small stream of water headed down the gutters.
The birds have slowed down at the feeders as it has warmed a bit. The sun shines and it looks a lot better out there.
Yes it is a duck even though it doesn't quack like a duck. I found this item in a box that I bid on at a farm sale in southern Iowa. It was a box full of junk, paper, antique glassware, and a billiard ball. It was we called a "junky sale" and for a quarter you could own a box of good and bad stuff. I didn't say things were dirty but they were. It was 1970 and I was off from college in the summer. My step great uncle John Horton had a brother Jesse, and it was his farm sale in southern Iowa. It was way south in the rolling hills in what we called the "sticks".
Brass was hot back when I was still in college. There would be boxes of brass pieces like these at flea markets and it looked valuable to me. I think I bought this and another one in a bowl shape. I tried photographing it in my light box.
A quick shot of the ongoing project shows that I have now finished three of them. I bought paint this morning and work will continue. I can't put these outside anytime soon as their is six inches of snow now where they are going to be placed. Spring is suppose to be coming.
The brass container looks really good in your photo, what a nice design:)
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