Top of the morning to you Susan, Our thanks to Caroline for blowing the feather up (post #131). I am still intrigued by it, and also by Steve's apparent reluctance to put in his "pen north" on any meaningful observation on it. Can we read any significance into this most obvious "sidestep" of a Pele aficionado? Patti' post #132, wondering what the feather has been attached to - my guess is that it may be a wine cork, with colouring from red wine. The feather was poked in through the corkscrew hole. Susie, whomever did it, maybe they were having a "lark", which is what you get up with!!