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A flock of chickens are feeding in the stable yard. Everyone seems to love chickens. We find images of them on plates, kitchen towels, salt and peppershakers, and collections of them everywhere.
Surprisingly, they are also very personable and contrary to some belief, they make good pets. They are worthy descendents of the dinosaur, and some have specualted they are descended from raptors who learned to become omvnivors! This painting is a composite of the chickens my parents tried to raise when they moved to Arizona. Sadly, the coyotes in that part of the country also liked them�for dinner.

Gail Daley is a self-taught artist and writer with a background in business. An omnivorous reader, she was inspired by her son, also a writer, to finish some of the incomplete novels she had begun over the years. She is heavily involved in local art groups and fills her time reading, writing, painting in acrylics, and spending time with her husband of 40 plus years. Currently her family is owned by two cats, a mischievous young cat called Mab (after the fairy queen of air and darkness) and a mellow Gray Princess named Moonstone. In the past, the family shared their home with many dogs, cats and a Guinea Pig, all of whom have passed over the rainbow bridge. A recent major surgery on her stomach and a bout with breast cancer has slowed her...