[TheForge] on and off topic- botanical forms

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

What Phoebe would say is..."It's not a cat tail, it's a piece of art".
They have different requirements. We agree with your dad..pf

Andy Gladish wrote:
> 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)
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