Bruce Shanks (1908-1980)

[inscription reads] " conscious of Fred & Joe keeping up a lively conversation but it is only a mumbling to me. Suddenly from some-where came the call of a blue-jay - its call sounding like iron-clanking. I am not certain it was not my imagination. I heard it several times. It was able to reach me instantly. / I think the charm the “Weerie-bird has for me is in the fact that I do not know what it is. "