Crazy bird
This weird little fella isn’t the only crazy bird around here. I am living with the aftermath of the hard drive on my laptop crashing… and taking everything with it. There were plenty of warning signs but did I heed them? Stupid, stupid ,stupid me. Over-heating, regular white screen, screen freezing; I could go on, but I think you get the picture – then no picture and no sound. I stared at the screen in disbelief. It was a mind-crunching, stomach-numbing moment, and I know that’s the wrong way round but that’s about it. The unthinkable had happened. I turned it off and I turned it back on. Again and again and again. I left it cool down and turned it on again but still those bloody words appeared: ‘No bootable device found.’ So that’s it. We had done a back-up in recent months, but not recently enough to save all of those photos, emails and documents. I had pictures in mind for blog posts, and like the proverbial fish that got away, those photos were the best I had ever taken.(Well, that’s a load of boloney for a start). Anyway, there are far worse losses to bear. I will now stop my whinging and introduce Fergus above. We found him on a beach and he now lives with us. Doesn’t his shadow seem strangely human?
See his Charleston USA cousin here: http://andelieya.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/driftwood/
And lots of other crazy cousins from the Central Oregon Coast here: http://ehkstream.org/2013/02/02/dryft-byrds/
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Your creatures are absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for your participation and I’ve had some new visitors through from your post so thank you for that too!
wildsherkin, I haven’t forgotten a foto of the driftbird in my shed. So far, looking for it has been a wild goose chase through the flotsam and jetsam of a small space with to much stuff in it…
Don’t worry – no pressure! You will probably find all sorts of other wonderful long lost things instead. I love ‘the flotsom and jetsam of a small space’. 🙂
I found a whole post full of odd creatures!
http://ehkstream.org/2013/02/02/dryft-byrds/
Thanks for the connection to found bits and pieces!
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I think it’s rather nice piece of bird looking drift wood, rather sculptural and sort of attractive in a weird sort of way.
Sorry about your computer, same thing just happened to my husband!
I love these ‘gifts’ from nature! Sorry to hear about your husband’s computer.
So sorry to hear about your mishap with the computer! Maybe the time has come for a fresh new start. Btw, I have a piece of driftwood that looks very similar to yours. 🙂 Good luck with the recover of your data!
Thank you. You are the second blogger to say they had a similar driftwood find. Perhaps I should start a Quirks of Nature page! 🙂
Not a bad idea!
I will take a photo of my very similar driftwood in the next day or two and post it on my blog so you can see it. 🙂
I see the human form in the shadow, hands in pockets, stepping into a wall of fog.
I have a very similar drift-bird that lives in my shed.
You have an artist’s eye! I’ve just had a look at your lovely soapstone sculptures and images. So glad to have found you.
céad míle fáilte!
Go raibh míle maith agat! 🙂
Hi, just want to thank you for following and to say that the ‘Crazy Bird’ driftwood has found a cousin in Charleston, USA. (See the new link on the post above) and I wondered if you would like to get your drift-bird out of the shed and take a picture!
I can do that! It’s driftwood season here, I’m collecting pieces for art projects, I’ll go through them and take some photos…
Strangely human ? 🙂
What can I say?!
LOLOL @ your comment above WS 😉
Seriously tho .. there are ways to retrieve stuff from a hard drive..have you explored all possibilities …prob I guess … I would thow a big stylee tanty too if that happened . Gulp .Doublee Gulp.
Welcome back tho… and I LOVE FERGUS …GIMMEE . NOW.
😀
I’m going to send the hard drive to a data recovery place so fingers crossed. As for Fergus…hands off… he’s MINE!!!
Brilliant. Hope you get the hard drive recovery sorted
Thanks Nuala! 🙂
What kind of bird is that?
One of nature’s weird and wonderful creations! I’m assuming it’s a piece of driftwood … But you never know!
Perhaps it’s a knot?
🙂
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/k/knot/index.aspx
Ha! Or perhaps a ‘Lesser Spotted Metamorphised Knot’! Apologies for not responding sooner.
The legs are a little long for a knot.. maybe some kind of stilt.
No hurries 🙂
🙂