On one of my recent travel junkets I acquired something new and interesting for the house. An objet d'art, a whatnot, a doo-dad...well an egg actually. Not just any old egg, but an ostrich egg. And not just an ostrich egg, but one without the yolk. Actually as you can see from the photo at left, it's a hollow ostrich egg with carvings in the shell. My ostrich egg has elephants on it. I understand that they do the carvings with a "layyy-serrr" Can you imagine, they use a frickin laser beam to carve decorations onto the shell of an ostrich egg? Well as long as people like me keep buying these sort of things I guess there will always be a demand. So anyway, I came home with this wonderful new carved ostrich egg, feeling all special that I had something pretty cool and unusual. Then yesterday by pure coincidence, I received an e-mail from Jennifer, a reader of this blog who sent me a series of photos that included....can you imagine? OSTRICH EGGS with carvings on the shell. Her photos inspired me to share MY ostrich egg. So you've seen the full on view (above) now check out this close-up below:
above: if you look closely you can see the image of elephant...
And below, here are the photos of the other ostrich eggs that Jennifer sent to me:
above left: hummingbird, center: concentric circles, right: a winged horse.
So a big thanks to Jennifer for giving me the inspiration for this post on ostrich eggs. Jennifer- looking forward to seeing you in Palm Springs soon when you visit your mom!
-Rick Rockhill
-Rick Rockhill
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