Day 23 #artAdventCalendar is My hand-carved, hand-printed lino block print of the well-known, ancient Chinese folktale of the magpie bridge linking the lovers, The Weaver Girl & the Cowherd, separated by a great river, which is the Milky Way, is printed on lovely Japanese paper.

There are variations of the folktale across Asia, but the story tells of lovers, the Weaver Girl, symbolized by Vega, & the 🧵

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gulls a nusicance as ever making it harder to get good pics of the other birds.

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birds were around a lot with gulls trying to steal everything. got some cashew nuts as a christmas treat for the crows. they seem to love them.

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