Fearful Symmetry

Bo Bunny - Zoology Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Tiger

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Bo Bunny - Zoology Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Zebra

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Sakura Pen Set - Micron 6 piece Black ink set - Six Different Point Sizes

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$18.00  Sale : $17.09

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads - Black Soot

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$5.00  Sale : $4.65

Lily Bee Design - Buttercup Collection - 12 x 12 Cardstock Stickers - Alphabet

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This is my last LO from our February 24, 2008 Brookfield Zoo visit.

These are photos I took of the Amur Tiger - formerly called the Siberian Tiger. Amur better identifies the area in which they are found in the wild: the region surrounding the Amur River in southeastern Russia and northeastern China. They are critically endangered - the next step is Extinct in the Wild. There are about 500 animals existing in the wild, but their genetic diversity is very low, which may escalate the effects of disease and genetic disorders on the population on top of loss from habitat destruction and poaching. Amur Tigers are the largest of all big cats.

This is for the October PageMaps, Etc. Challenge - Sketch 3.

Also for October Monochrome Challenge Color 1 - Jack-o-Lantern. No twist.

And October Multi Pic Challenge.

I kept this one simple to highlight the photos and to go with my Amur Leopard LO, which will face it in my album. I made the flower from flocked tiger print wire-edged ribbon and a tiger brad. The title is, of course, from William Blake's 1794 poem, The Tyger. I wrote the poem around the edge of the orange layers of pp:

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?