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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