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Welcome to Barb's Blog. Posting some of my opinions, insights, ideas, and adventures about art, travel, plein aire, pastel, and whatever's happening. Join me, feel free to add comments, follow along as I paint and write and explore The Twelve days of Christmas - 5On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me: Five golden Rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. There is some speculation that the five rings - since there are so many birds in this song - are five ring-necked pheasants. I would be somewhat disappointed, wouldn't you?
The Twelve Days o Christmas -4The Fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me: Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree The song originallally wasn't about calling birds. There is no such thing. However there is a collie bird in England. Collie refers to the mining industry and the color black. So I got four blackbirds for the fourth day. I didn't get four collie dogs - there's another bit of trivia I need to explore.
The Twelve Days of Christmas 3The third day of Christmas my true love gave to me: Three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. The Faverolles chicken is a French breed of chicken. They are quite handsome and are exhibition chickens in the UK as well as for meat and eggs. I don't think they would like my three French Hens.
The Twelve Days ofChristmas 2The second day of Christmas my true love gave to me: Two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. I learned that we don't have turtle doves in the US. They are a British and European bird. We do have mourning doves, which my father called rain crows. He did this because they would coo before it rained, telling us the weather would change. They have nothing to do with turtles either. The name turtle is a distortion of their name of turtur referring to the sound they make. Fascinating, what picking up a song that wont stop playing in your head will do.
The Twelve Days of Christmas.I learned a week or so ago that the Twelve Days of Christmas are a tradition from the past that start on the twenty-fifth and end at Advent. this worked for me since I'm a Christmas procrastinator and loved the idea of doing some funny and pun-ny cartoons - or illustrations of this Christmas ditty. The Twelve Days of Christmas is a song that sticks in your head. A kind of ear worm if you like. One the First day of Christmas y true love gave to me: a partridge ina pear tree. First of all partridges are ground birds. But that's okay.
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