Well, it's been awhile since I've done an entry, and here the month is half-gone... and if you think I'm going to be able to get much of anything up right before or after Chrismas... I laugh a loud HA! at you.
But! Now that I have access to a digital camera again, I can share pictures of my favorite birthday present: my foo dog! Yes, he's a bit gaudy (gilt on white porcelain, accents in cream and red and blue and coral-orange), but hey... he's so ugly he's cute. And he has the cutest, perkiest little ears, and the way his mane and tail stand up... well, if Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch had been a gold-and-white Pekingese, perhaps she would have looked like this, standing over that grate... (Pekingese dogs, by the way, are also known as foo (or fu) dogs, but the guardian-spirit foo dogs came first as far as who-resembles-whom).
And so...
ladies, gentlemen, and others, my own personal foo dog:
Posted by gris at December 12, 2004 06:56 PMThat's gorgeous, Grissy! And thank you for the link, because I'd always wondered whether they were dogs or lions, and now it seems, they're a bit of both... And when Penny and I were wandering around outside of Peking the other night, I noticed the cub for the first time, but without knowing anything about it, I was left wondering if it was being played with, or killed. (Yes, I know I'm a bit morbid when I've spent twenty minutes or so trying to keep my child from running out into traffic.)
Posted by: Liz at December 12, 2004 08:29 PM