Have you seen a chicken, a BROWN chicken?

...

Well, that's a horse above, isn't it? Apparently, it's a stud in fact, from the 

'stud garden', Stuttgart. Well, of course, as we all know, it's the Porsche 

badge, and you might be interested in what's it got to do with brown chickens.

After missing most of my last week's regular walks (due to unseasonal 

humidity in Sydney), I bit the bullet today, encouraged by the forecast for 

showers, and headed off for the longer walk in my repertoire, that usually 

takes at least one and a half hours to complete. The forecast was for a few 

showers, but instead of being rained on, I got sunned on, again, and got home 

sweating heaps (sorry for the cop-out, I couldn't think of a suitable ending for 

sweating like a ???, I tried googling it, but the ones on the first page were not 

funny, not funny at all).

When I got to Clareville I took my normal detour along Delecta Avenue, the 

beach-side street of multi-million dollar houses and the quaintly named 

gourmet restaurant Clareville Kiosk. There was this car parked outside 

somebody's garage that caught my interest. It wasn't because it was illegally 

parked (it didn't even occur to me), but because it

w a s   j u s t   g o r g e o u s!

A 50 year old silver Porsche 1600!

I started taking photos of it (funny - I haven't had a camera on me for some 

time now during my walks, and suddenly when I did take it along, as in today, 

there were so many interesting things to photograph!). Well, I noticed this 

young lady (in her nice summer dress in orange, my favourite colour at the 

moment), carrying a baby, approaching. Getting closer, when I was busy 

clicking my camera, she addressed me: "Are you a Parking Inspector?". Well, I 

was wearing a kind of council green shorts, and a grey t-shirt, so I guess her 

interpretation was understandable, especially since her car was illegally 

parked, and she was on the lookout for the rangers, I assume. We established 

that I wasn't, so I had to justify myself taking photos of her car, so I just said 

"Gorgeous car!", which she agreed with, as she would, I guess. "Have you 

seen a chicken, a brown chicken? We've lost it", she said.

These seeds I spotted at just around the corner, on the street, still at Delecta 

Avenue, before getting back onto Hudson Parade. Made me think of another 

luxury German Auto Maker, Mercedes Benz:

Back in December, on a cloudy day, I took this photo on the right (see the post 

here). Today, going past the same spot, I thought of replicating the image on a 

normal summer day, without exactly remembering the exact spot I was the 

last time. Not bad; both photos were taken almost from the very same angle.

Wang Yuping

Bird And Person Series #7, man with black bird and red ear, 1998

Acrylic, ink, oil pastel on paper, 109 x 79 cm

Esa Jaske Collection