But she was beautiful!

Well, Agfest has come and gone and Big Del was finished in time and shipped off to take her place. She didn't win any of the prizes but she was beautiful and one of the more eye-catching cows on display. She was runner up in the People's Choice award but that was scooped by Hagley Farm school who reportedly sent 8 classes to Agfest, all armed with the prepared voting slips for their cow, Pic-cow-so.

However, most people loved Del and every time I went past her, she was being stroked, examined or generally interacted with. My favourite sight was towards closing time when I saw two weary farmers with elbows resting on her head, discussing the days finds. I wished I'd gotten that photo!

C'est la vie!

Holy cow!

The next school project is the painting of Del, the lifesize fibreglass cow, which has to be completed before judging at Agfest in May.

She's a beautiful beast, with soulful brown eyes and anatomical details absolutely correct. One suspects that the original cast was taken from a real cow. She won't of course, continue to look so beautiful. She's got to be artistically adorned and thus will descend into the Andy Warhol halucinatory lifestyle and will become host to a rotary dairy and other sundry attractions. But the first step has been taken and I have a whole day tomorrow to take her a step further and break the back of the project, so to speak!