Apr 1
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

Interesting that I’m willing to spend one penny on your thoughts but mine are worth two…. Al says that is a bid-ask spread (only really funny to stock traders, but I got it too, or at least the idea behind it.)

Of all the colors I expected to use on copper pennies, the light purple and medium blue are the most unexpected.

feeding my coin thing
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

For Mosaic Monday, a mosaic of other people’s coin images found on Flickr.

Postcard yet to come.

Shula at Poppalina tagged me to explain the name.

When I was consulting, I called the company Corvus Consulting because I wanted the wisdom and the attitude of the ravens. When I stopped consulting, I still needed a name to stick on the sutff I make. I wanted to stay within the corvidae family, but crows were easier to see around me than ravens. I thought about all the different colored crows there might be, but only Blue Crow and Red Crow seemed reasonable. Then Aerin drew a picture of a bird to show Alice how to do it. It looked like it was dancing. When Al gave me a domain name for Mother’s Day that year, it had to be Dancing Crow Designs.

I still like crows and ravens.  I read a bunch of great books about them, plus an essay by David Quammen in Outside Magazine about 15 years ago, reprinted in his book Natural Acts. My favorite was Ravens in Winter and it looks like he has a new book due out soon.