Ohhh I like the snow covered lion head Neil. The baboon and frog are nice too, but that lion has a fairytale quality that the other two lack. That may be because it's not mounted on the tile--the tile looks too much like the bottom of a swimming pool for my liking.

The lion head does have a fairy tale quality to it even if the lion does look a bit too smiley for a lion. It looks even a bit dog-like in its eagerness. Don't get me wrong, I love dogs, just I would have like a more Aslan-like lion. I am reading Prince Caspian just now.

The baboon reminds me of the snow monkeys in hot springs in Japan in the Hot Springs (what a life):
http://travel.3yen.com/wp-content/images/jigokudani_hotspring_in_nagano_japan_001.jpg

Getting back to lions and dogs, I had to put my Dad's dog down last week, which was very sad. I am working on a poem called "The Stone Table," which the experience so powerfully evoked, but I have not got it as yet.

I'm sorry about your dad's dog. That had to have been painful. Ugh. Off to look at the snow monkey link.