Elephants & Me

This magazine used to sit in a stack in the Conservatory

and I stopped to look every time I passed that way.

So I finally grabbed it and propped it on an easel for display.

 It is a photograph I can't stop looking at.

I found another stash of magazines when I was winnowing

and simplifying the other day and I began to notice

a pattern emerging: 

Then this clipping appeared in my new scribble book: 

And I recalled the Nellie's Elephants sweater I knitted

for GrandGril this time last year as we were

anticipating her arrival: 

On the knick-knack shelf

(you have a knick-knack shelf, right?)

I found this darling little Heffalump: 

And very near him I found the sweet little guy

that started my whole collection:

Toby Johanes was lovingly crafted many years ago by a child of mine. You may notice that he suffered an unfortunate trunk injury a while back. Nothing a little love and SuperGlue could not fix.

The rare blue-eyed yellow elephant from the wilds of Central CA.

A real treasure.