Who's at home?

I tried to find non-human kin in Utrecht. Pigeons and jackdaws were the most notable residents.

There was a cool hare sculpture - I was never in the right place with my camera... but you can see it here. The hare - and I think this must be a hare not a rabbit - is enacting the pose of "The Thinker". A nice image for a week of thinking about more than human intelligence.

And we see the missionary Willbrot riding his horse as he takes the Christian message through the Netherlands.

A little lateral, but bear with me....

Runes are kind of connected with trees... they were often carved on wood; Odin maybe discovered them after hanging upside down on a tree; and the Ogham ones represent trees. Vicarious, but plausible.

Near the runes, was a carved stone. Pleasing to look at... and mysterious.

It is, it turns out, a copy of the Jelling Stone, known colloquially as "the birth certificate of Denmark."