Faster, Higher, Stronger

In 2008, I had the good fortune to lay my hands on a pair of tickets to the Olympic games in Beijing. Sadly, this was in October of that year--a couple of months after the event--when I found them in a book I was scanning. They were quite pretty!

I felt a bit sorry for whoever left them there, as I'm sure if I ever made it to the Olympic games (athlete or no), I'd want to keep those tickets. I also wonder if the original owner even got to use them, as they didn't show any signs of having been torn or anything indicating that they'd been processed.


Disclaimer:  The above image is not a photo of either of the actual tickets I found, nor is it my property. I am only using it as an example to illustrate my find.

Books of a feather

Today we have a brand new find: bird feathers. I kid you not. There were three or four of them total, slipped between the pages of a volume on erotic photography--the title of which escapes me.

I identified at least two of the feathers. The first was roughly a foot long, from quill to tip, and I believe was a hawk's feather. The second was a few inches shorter and looked to have once belonged to a turkey.

I'm not sure whether the fact that they were real makes more or less sense here. Nor do I really care to speculate on the connection between the subject matter of the book and the feathers themselves.