Fortune Telling Birds, and Other Animals

Jon says they have these in Korea too. It's pretty cute, though I am sure the fortunes have no bearing on reality, right? The canaries are trained to pick three little folded packets of paper from the box and drop them on the table. For their reward they get to eat a couple seeds from the man's fingers. I liked this cage which was a representation of the spires of the cathedral in Guadalajara. (The video is at the bottom- I haven't quite figured out how to move things around on the page...)

Speaking of birds. Yesterday when we were having dinner at the Adobe, the passing pedestrian traffic included a man and his dogs. We have seen this guy and these dogs before and wish we had a picture of them. One of the dogs we would like to bring home with us, he is so cute. Name of Junior. Head does not match body, like a dog made out of leftover dog parts. But we were speaking of birds. The man- who appears very simple, or drunk, or both- had clinging to his shirt a tiny, not-quite-fully-fledged HUMMINGBIRD! Now you guys know how I love hummingbirds and we have thrilled to see them come to the hotel garden in the mornings, to drink from the lilies in vases on the tables, but this was just too much! I thought I would faint from the strange wonderfulness of it. The man scooped the tiny thing into his hand, and handed it to me, but before I could take hold of it, it fluttered its wings and took off! It raised up like an overloaded helicopter, and landed in the windowsill behind us. I scooped it up and handed it back to the man, who assured us it would have come back to him on his own! My, my! Got me a Handi-Wipe after that. Whew!