Weston was delighted by these swan gourds: he described one of them in his daybooks, "The bird is a beauty indeed-a blue heron, bill and feet red, neck turned over its back to almost a completed circle-a lovely thing in line, but done by nature (albeit nature improved by man) for the bird is a painted gourd." Two months later, at the end of November 1924, he photographed two of them: I face the fact that I find myself really happy only when I am lost behind my camera or locked in my dark-room. So today I became happy for a while: I photographed more of my "juguetes Mexicanos," this time the "pajaritos"-little birds-in blue,--exquisite things in line. I combined two of them on my ground glass. Perhaps three negatives will be considered worth printing. . . . Technically dissatisfied with what should have been my best photograph of "los pajaritos," I spent another several hours attempting to duplicate it: impossible to place even inanimate objects exactly as seen before. I still think my failure [is] the best seen negative though the actual difference is ever so slight. Although he was disappointed, both Charlot and Tina were "enthusiastic" over his Pajaritos." A few weeks later, when he returned to the United States, he brought one of the bright blue herons with him. [Amy Conger, "Edward Weston: Photographs," Figure 151].