
Blogger Patricia Youngquist is an author and a photographer. Her recent e-book, BIRD TALES, is interactive and includes the Blue jay featured above. Prior works include versions of WORDS IN OUR BEAK, where the stories are narrated by Cam, a female cardinal. Additionally, some of her photographs have been licensed by Fine Art America to reproduce as wall art and on to an array of surfaces for various products! Do view both side-bars for specific details on all of this.
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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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