" Toronto- forgive my ignorance but what IS that? " Don't feel badly - it was part of a student art installation in an Amsterdam gallery (the Stedelijk Museum if I recall, which was a wonderful experience). I walked in an saw this bejewelled stuffed iguana fed into the rollers of an an old fashioned washing machine, and laughed. And so I needed to take a picture.

Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts. She was beautiful and very much a lap cat the last several years.

@nicole & @jrb451 thanks both for kind words. This window hung inside a bathroom window in our last house - minus the blue frame. We didn’t have a place to hang inside in this house so had to get creative again. We were told it came from a home being torn down on the east coast. We got it years ago from an architectural antiques warehouse type store near Seattle’s waterfront historic building area. This is the other window we got from same place. My DH spent weeks scraping at least 5 layers of paint off of this one & then he stained the wood. It’s nice having the original frame. You can see the indents along the bottom where the window hardware was. It looked like this was a large transom window. The frame is 24” x 36”.

National Cathedral, Washington, DC