This is a blog about nature in all her glory. The folklore and general ideas about what messages nature bring to people.
Monday, July 06, 2009
My Week of Dragon Sightings
In tracking any dragons that I saw in a week, I decided not to include my dragon collection. (That alone contains classic dragons, dragonets, a sea serpent, and a wyvern.) I wanted to find out if dragons appeared in other places. I was pleasantly surprised.
Date: June 20, 2009
Place: Supermarket Parking Lot. On a company truck: Tyson Land Excavation.
Description: Red, bat wings, four legs, and a pointed tail.
Type: Classic
Notes: I think the company wanted us to think of them as strong and capable of moving land.
Date: June 21, 2009
Place: Public Library: New Book Section: “Tale of Briar Bank”, Susan Albert, book cover
Description: Green, bat wings, two legs, and long.
Type: Lindwurm
Notes: Dragon character in this book was called Torvaald, who was a guardian of treasure.
Date: June 22, 2009
Place: My Space: Dog World Application: Store
Description: Mother and baby, gold, bat wings, four legs, and pointed tails.
Type: Classic, dragonet
Notes: This application encourages people to support the ASPCA. Dragons are named Goldie and Skylar. She blinks, and he sneezes out smoke.
Date: June 23, 2009
Place: Live Journal: A friend’s page. They adopted dragon eggs to hatch.
Description: The ten eggs hatched into dragons. They were all colors and shapes.
Type: Amphitere (legless, wings), classic, firedrake (red one), ice drake (white one),
Notes: An on-line application that encourages people to adopt dragons as pets.
Date: June 24, 2009
Place: Mail catalog (Fire Mountain Gems, June 2009)
Description: Bat wings, two legs, and pointed tails.
Type: Wyvern
Notes: Pewter beads for sale
Date: June 25, 2009
Place: Mail catalog (Rings and Things, 2009-2010)
Description: Green, black, blue, small, bat wings, four legs, and pointed tails.
Type: Dragonet
Notes: Ceramic beads for sale
Date: June 26, 2009
Place: TV: PBS: “Dragon Tales”
Description: Several: small and pink, large and teal, green and purple two-headed. All have bat wings and four legs.
Type: Classic, dragonet, hydra
Notes: Came upon it while channel surfing. Program encourages children to read. Pink female - Cassie, teal male - Ord, and two-headed one – Zak and Wheezie
Date: June 27, 2009
Place: TV: NBC: “Dragon”
Description: Small, blue, no wings, large nose
Type: Ice drake
Notes: Came on after a news show, in the morning. Program for young children. Dragon is friendly and childlike.
Pictures from "Dragon" TV Show (http://www.qubo.com/Dragon_show.asp)
Copyright: Virginia Carper 2009
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