Bengardening, I just used the term "chicks" as a generic way of saying 'baby birds'. Nicole, at least 15. I think there could have been a couple more that had wandered off a little out of frame. Any way you look at it, there was a whole lot of babies. Jodi-

That reminds me of this picture of the waterfront area of Constance, Germany. The giant statue in the harbor, was commissioned from a famous local artist, who agreed on the condition that he could make whatever he wanted and the town couldn't see it until it was finished and installed. He made this statue of a scantily clad woman holding two wizened, shriveled figures in the palms of her hands. One represents the king or emperor and the other represents the pope. Some in the town were outraged when the statue was unveiled.

From the "Blessing of the Hounds" back in November The minister reading the benediction: and the Hounds not particularly caring:

Raven, in all the time we spent in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, I only saw two of those squatters and they were in older, rural areas. Restaurants, hotels, malls and other public areas all had regular western style toilets if they were in towns or cities that have western tourists visit on a regular basis. The airports also had the squatters, but they also had plenty of western toilets as well. I think that was because the airports get so many travelers from places where squatters are the norm and they sometimes don't know what to make of a western style toilet. The malls in Bangkok had signs in the stalls that said the toilets were not for feet washing.