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.
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The brass container looks really good in your photo, what a nice design:)
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