19/04/09 ~ 20/04/09 - PAUL ~ So glad you like the painting and thanks for the comment on the transition. - BILBOW ~ Your comment makes me feel so proud. - PHIL ~ Glad you like it, I wouldn't dream of eating him, stuffing or not. He's too handsome. We had a laugh over the Goose Green crack, thank you too. - SHEILA ~ Thanks for putting Paul right over the species. Don't usually go into so much detail but I think it works. - PATSY ~ I love you too...My head won't go through the office door soon. Many thanks. - RUTHY ~ Glad you like him , his attitude and expression speak volumes don't they. It's a composition as he was snapped by a concrete pond and the background wasn't very interesting. The Tissington, Pen & Wash is really nice in the flesh, so to speak. Looks good in a frame. It's amazing what a frame will do isn't it? - I was a bit doubtful but I used it for publicity purposes at the library in the Arts Group exhibition. - CAROLE ~ Just got yours, the foreground was very tedious and took ages to do. Thank you so much. Going to bed now, got physio in the morning. Night All. ~ ~/~ 20/04/09 - PHIL~ I couldn't eat him after I'd met him. It would have been a bit like cannibalism. If I eat goose I buy it from the butcher and yes, the rhubarb would be the perfect accompaniment and anyway I only have goose at Christmas Eve because it's special food for a special celebration meal. PATSY ~ If he wants to eat one, let him get his own. ~ DIANA ~ I took the pic., into the garden to compare the rhubarb with the stuff that grows at the back of the rockery and the colour compares very well. Perhaps the reproduction by scanner has affected it somewhat.