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Where All the Birds Gather

Ostriches, parrots, swans and herons share one green glade beside a reedy pool.

Painting · Roelant Savery, 1622

A wooded glade crowded with birds of many kinds, including ostriches, macaws, swans, geese and herons, around a pool fringed with reeds.
Roelant Savery · Public domain

Let your eyes wander

  1. Begin with the tall ostrich on the left, its long neck curving down.
  2. Just behind it, a second ostrich peeks out from among the leaves.
  3. In the great tree, a red macaw opens its wings.
  4. Over on the right, another macaw with a long red tail sits beside a pale parrot.
  5. In the middle, two white swans rest by the water.
  6. Among the reeds, small white birds are lifting into the air.
  7. Down at the bottom left, a row of tiny ducklings waits at the water’s edge.
  8. Far away, past the reeds, a pale blue hill rises under the sky.

There is no last thing to find. Look again wherever your eyes would like to rest, or close them and keep the picture.

Keep going

Nothing here needs finishing. Every door leads somewhere, and the last one is always darker than this.