When I started driving my Grand Cherokee last autumn , suddenly Grand Cherokees were everywhere : at the supermarket , on the highway , at the gym . Everywhere I looked , there they were . I do n’t lie with how I could have possibly overleap the superfluity of Grand Cherokees that have apparently existed around me all these years .
What I have n’t missed , however , is the richness of fowl that also populates my environment . Just like the auto , my favoritedomesticated bird(and yours ) seems to be everywhere I release . Not the actual beast , although that sure as shooting is the lawsuit in my rural area . No , I mean aesthetic and artifactual representations of chickens . Their ubiquitousness bestow to listen the rousing cry from that classic Dick Orkin Americanradio series , Chickenman , “ He ’s everywhere ! He ’s everywhere ! ”
Chickens in My Backyard
Literally and figuratively . For representative , my kinfolk recently went camping just north of Benton Harbor ( a lakeside Michigan town and also the name of Chickenman ’s alter ego ) . On a morning trial , I passed by a bearded man wearing a T - shirt colour with a full - coloring material cock . I almost stop and retrace my steps to ask if I could take a photo ( I did n’t ) . Toward the remainder of our holiday , we visited the Tri - Cities Historical Museum in nearby Grand Haven . One of the exhibits there was a battered old sign promoting tattooing and registering domestic fowl with the state police . Ana Hotaling
I ca n’t help but enquire how effective this Robert William Service was . I surmise that these tattoo oftentimes wind up in the bellies of the domestic fowl thief . Then , during a fall - off at an out-of-door recycling center , I get a line a safety chicken poke out of the feeding bottle - and - butt bin . Ana Hotaling
I adopted it . He ’s now on the flush bench in our service department .
Chickens Across America
But chickens , rubber or reproductions , are n’t just a Michigan matter . My friend Rhoda place a photo on societal media of a arctic chicken she saw attach to a bicycle at a triathlon in Cleveland .
At an Omaha garden memory board , my husband , Jae , and I spent a quarter hour admire a group of bright hue metal roosters we found amongst the birdhouses and wind chimes , render to figure out how to fit them into our car ( we couldn’t).Ana Hotaling
At the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden , creative person Katharina Fritsch ’s elephantine blue rooster sculpture , “ Hahn / Cock , ” gaze down at visitors , including my friend Andy . “ It was so … blue ! And big ! ” he reported , amazed by the immense work of artistic production .
Ana Hotaling
Chickens Everywhere
Unexpected encounters are what makes determination chicken everywhere so entertaining . I never live where I ’ll come across a domestic fowl - shaped topiary or a bakery selling Gallus gallus - form shekels cooky . I was roaming a rose garden at Denmark ’s Egeskov Castle when I came across a very whimsical statue of an armored weasel riding on the back of a rooster . Ana Hotaling
At Malmohus Castle in Sweden , a natural history exhibit inexplicably — and amusingly — sport feathered chicken costume , one with a waistband reading “ Miss USA.”Ana Hotaling
It ’s gotten to the point that I now carry these surprising domestic fowl happen on my social media explanation with the hashtag#IFindChickensEverywhere . And I do … and I ’m trusted you do , too . Share your crybaby finds : mail your photos with this hashtag . I — and all our fellow crybaby lover — would love to see them .
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