pretty flamingos

one dozen pink flamingos

"On our block, all of the guys call her flamingo...When she walks by, she brightens up the neighbourhood"

In 1958, from Massachusetts, there came the first migration of plastic flamingos to the front lawns of America. The designer was Don Featherstone, for many years his signature was molded into the bird's butt. There are people who are quite happy to see them, and others have them as the epitome of kitsch and poor aesthetics, but look at some lauded modern and contemporary art and how can you be upset with lawn flamingos? 

Now, they were designed in pairs, and they had a pair of thin metal legs. Supra, the flock is all standing on one leg, and their heads are resting against bodies; they sort of look like some plant, or cotton candy on a stick. The old joke asks, "What for do flamingos stand with one leg tucked up?" Well, if both were up, they would fall down.