Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Cattle Cow Skull

Cattle Skull 01
Sculpture/assemblage at the Redwood Motel in Bridgeport, CA.
Posted by Tom Hilton at 8:38 AM
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cattle is a plural noun.

August 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Tom Hilton said...

Well, nobody ever accused me of knowing anything about livestock. So what is the singular in this case?

August 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Generik said...

OMG, I've stayed at that hotel more than once. We need to get together and compare notes.

You might want to call it a cow skull to satisfy the purists out there.

August 11, 2009 at 3:09 PM
Tom Hilton said...

Generik, I thought about you when I was in Bodie and Bridgeport. (Neither of which was in my original plan--I was going to do a backpacking trip, but the weather forecast was really crappy, so I did an Eastern Sierra road trip instead.) Hadn't been to Bodie since 1979, and had never been to Bridgeport before. Good times.

Isn't a cow female? Or is it non-gender-specific? As I said, I don't know a lot about livestock.

August 11, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Anonymous said...

Sorry about being a "purist" (not really) but I do like accuracy. Cow: "an animal of either sex and any age belonging to any breed of domestic cattle. Genus: Bos."

August 12, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Tom Hilton said...

Got it.

Anyway, I think it's a cool picture, even if nobody else does.

August 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Donna said...

Georgia O'Keefe by way of Magritte. Love the moon in the background.

August 12, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Generik said...

*I* think it's a way cool picture. Having been there many times and having taken numerous shots of the artwork there, I'm a little jealous that I don't have a shot to match up to this one.

August 12, 2009 at 9:38 PM

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