
Patricia Youngquist is the author of a book series, "Words In Our Beak," in which the stories are told by Cam, the bird pictured above. Click on the 1st image of sidebar (R) for info. Moreover, some of her photo-based art work is available via Fine Art America. Click on the 2nd image sidebar (R) to visit. On another note, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, she has created face-masks. Click on the 3rd image in sidebar (R). Visit her website via the 2nd image in left sidebar.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
In Honor of Hippo Day 2018
Today marks a holiday known as Hippo Day! One way that I am celebrating it by paying homage to Happy Hippo, whose likeness has been rendered into a ballon that has participated in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, as seen in the pictures directly above this entry.
According to a web-page associated with Days Of The Year, "Hippo loosely translates to River Horse in ancient Greek. Hippo Day, then, celebrates the third largest mammal on Earth."
Happy Hippo is not the only hippopotamus to be revered in NYC.
Last year, a character known as the Hippo Ballerina spent time in the vicinity of Lincoln Center on Manhattan's UWS. She can be seen in the images directly below, which you might recognize from a former entry here on Blogger.
This not-so-tiny-dancer was created by the sculptor, Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, and information re him and his sculpture can be found in the video posted directly below.
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