[TheForge] on and off topic- botanical forms

[Andy Gladish]

My dad was a poet and storyteller- his favorite saying was "don't worry  
about the facts, just get the story right."
I think this applies to a lot of decorative work- if it expresses  
"cattail" then precisely how the leaves are made is usually negotiable.

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:45:59 -0700, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer  
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:

> Unless they are to gates to the botanical society, we agree.
>
> Schade wrote:
>> On Mar 27, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
>>>   Very attractive.  Too
>>> bad cattails don't have leaves like that (they're actually flat, no
>>> fold).
>>
>>
>>
>> it's more important that the leaves be attractive than botanically
>> correct.
>>
>> Bob

No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. -Niels Bohr,  
physicist (1885-1962)