the velveteen rabbit

We have a zoo at home; a cat, two guinea pigs, two goldfish and a rabbit. Every time I get broody, I end up with another pet. So which animal did I select for the special treatment? Perseus, the rabbit. There's something about the way he could easily be a cuddly toy with all of his soft hair. It's not difficult to imagine him being brought to life by the fairy in "The Velveteen Rabbit", a book that Miles and I love to read together over and over again.

"Autumn passed and Winter, and in the Spring, when the days grew warm and sunny, the Boy went out to play in the wood behind the house. And while he was playing, two rabbits crept out from the bracken and peeped at him. One of them was brown all over, but the other had strange markings under his fur, as though long ago he had been spotted, and the spots still showed through. And about his little soft nose and his round black eyes there was something familiar, so that the Boy thought to himself:

'Why, he looks just like my old Bunny that was lost when I had scarlet fever!'

But he never knew that it really was his own Bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be Real."

from "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams

Green Dream Photography's rabbit could easily be one of the rabbits from this scene. So very easily. Look at all that outrageously fluffy fur and perfect snow on his nose.

See you next week for some silhouettes.
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pino in the snow by green dream photography