Today Google celebrates the 226-year birthday of John James Audubon, a famous painter of birds and other wildlife and wild plants in the USA. I love the random 226 - not just the expected 100, 200, 250... Here is today's Google logo if you missed it. It is kind of hard to see the letters for all the birds.
I really like that Google spreads knowledge around the world in ways like this. My favorite Audubon painting is the one of
mockingbirds defending their nest in a yellow jessamine plant against a rattlesnake. (Click on link to see image). I love that particular plant (
Gelsemium sempervirens), and mockingbirds are fascinating even if sometimes annoying, and I am scared and fascinated by rattlesnakes. The Gelsemium plant is very, very toxic as well.
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