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ALTSome posters and spot illos I did for my office awhile ago around the topic of sustainability and reuse. I really like the way posters turned out still!
Algy flew over to another hazel bush, which was thriving on the banks of the burn, and as he settled himself among the dense mass of twigs, the sun suddenly came out again and lit up the yellow catkins that were dangling all around him.
Recalling the old Hazel-Catkin Fairy rhyme for children, Algy began to sing it to a tune of his devising, reflecting as he sang that the catkins did indeed look like the tails of wee lambs. And he was happy to think that, with luck, there should be a plentiful supply of hazelnuts at the end of the summer for his feathered and furry friends that lived in the wilderness of the wild west Highlands of Scotland.
Like little tails of little lambs,
On leafless twigs my catkins swing;
They dingle-dangle merrily
Before the wakening of Spring.
Beside the pollen-laden tails
My tiny crimson tufts you see
The promise of the autumn nuts
Upon the slender hazel tree.
While yet the woods lie grey and still
I give my tidings: “Spring is near!”
One day the land shall leap to life
With fairies calling: “Spring is HERE!”
[Algy is quoting the Hazel-Catkin Fairy rhyme from the ever popular Flower Fairies books for children by the English 20th century illustrator Cicely Mary Barker.]
