Patience

Continuing to build up a mini collection of cards with Great Blue Heron on them, I'd like to share today these two goodies. 

First up is a nice 1908 Church & Dwight New Series of Birds Great Blue Heron. 

Cutely, fast forward fifty years to 1958 for this Oak Manufacturing Birds Great Blue Heron card.

Most of these Heron cards that I have shown were really reasonably priced for being very vintage cards in a non-sporting category. I recently got one more but I'll save that for later in the month.

My love for the heron (particularly the Great Blue) is relatively recent. Say maybe from around 2010 or so when we started seeing them in a pond we walked passed on the way from our house to the train station when we were living in Massachusetts. We saw them in state parks we went running in, too, and even on the Charles River and in the Fens from time to time. They are beautiful, lithe, elegant, and patient. They can teach us a lot about patience, too. Though I am generally impatient about a great many things, sadly. So we started stalking them they way they stalk fish and other food sources. We love seeing heron when we travel and have seen them in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand! 

The heron's nickname is Cranky. Because it can look so and surly, especially when crouched. If the Heron is a big one, it's called a Big Cranky. Nice. I've been known to be cranky. So, my spirit animal must be the heron (as well as John Kruk. I even have a shirt that says "John Kruk is my Spirit Animal"--I have the red sleeved variation). There was a brewery in Connecticut called Stony Creek which recently was purchased by another brewery. They had an IPA called Cranky and a Double IPA called Big Cranky in addition to a session called Little Cranky. They were good and their heron logo was pretty nice. I miss them.

Thanks for stopping by!