Coveting the Cardinal.

I said recently that there are two things I would like to do before I die. One is to sail the length of the Yangtze River, and the other is to see the Northern Lights. But now a third little oddity has crept into the picture: I would like to see a Cardinal bird, just because I like birds and the Cardinal is a handsome one. We don’t get Cardinals in Britain.

  

And here’s a second picture, just because I like pictures and I especially like Chinese pictures and this is redolent of the Chinese style.