Meet Daisy

Posted by Wayne (Melbourne, Australia) on 4 February 2007 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.

I have a thing for cows...

I don't know what it is but I've always liked them. They've generally got a very calm nature about them. They rarely hurt people...they produce milk...are essentially steaks wrapped in leather jackets...and generally do nothing but eat grass all day in the sun.

I am by nature a very hardworking person and by most standards an overachiever so I guess I'm attracted to the very calm and simple life of a cow.

So here's Daisy. She was a present from a very dear friend. And she came to mind because of a song I love for its lyrics is playing on my winamp. It's called The Folks Who Live On The Hill.

The Folks Who Live On The Hill
by Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern (1937)

Many men with lofty aims,
Strive for lofty goals,
Others play at smaller games,
Being simpler souls.

I am of the latter brand;
All I want to do,
Is to find a spot of land,
And live there with you.

Someday we'll build a home on a hilltop high,
You and I,
Shiny and new a cottage that two can fill.
And we'll be pleased to be called,
"The folks who live on the hill".

Someday we may be adding a thing or two,
A wing or two.
We will make changes as any fam'ly will,
But we will always be called,
"The folks who live on the hill".

Our veranda will command a view of meadows green,
The sort of veiw that seems to want to be seen.
And when the kids grow up and leave us,
We'll sit and look at the same old view,
Just we two.

Darby and Joan who used to be Jack and Jill,
The folks like to be called,
What they have always been called,
"The folks who live on the hill".

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