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Stainless Steel Bunny Foo Foo [1]

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Date: 2023-07-24

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6 pictures of Napa Valley's Bunny Foo Foo from a screen grab of Google search. <Click to Enlarge>

I have been driving a friend up to his hospital in St. Helena ever so often for the last few months. On the way up from Berkeley we pass by a giant, 35 foot tall, polished stainless steel silver rabbit. It is called Bunny Foo Foo. Named after the children song.

It is quite a stunning peace of art work. I’m sorry I was not able to get my own photo, so the best I can offer is just a screen grab of a google search. But if you click to enlarge the screen grab to the right you can get a pretty good view of the bunny.

Notice in the picture the two on the far right. On holidays the owners, Hall Wines Napa Valley, dress it up. Flags for the 4th of July. A hat for Halloween. On Easter, not pictured, it had a basket of Easter eggs. When one digs a little deeper into the history of the bunny there is a interesting story behind why it was created and placed in the wine field.

Jump the fold for the origin story of this unique artwork created by artist Lawrence Argent, who passed away on October 4, 2017.

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The motivation behind the sculpture is from Hall Wines owner’s children. Here is a snip from the Hall Wines website that explains it: “When David and Jennifer (Kathryn’s children) were little we were living in Dallas but spent at least 1 weekend a month at my family’s vineyard in Mendocino. One of our daily routines was to walk through the vineyard singing the song ‘Little Bunny Foo Foo hopping through the vineyard scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head’ note that we changed the word forest to vineyard because it was our song. I am very excited that we now have a new not so little Bunny Foo Foo hopping through our vineyard here in St. Helena. Life feels like it comes full circle.” –Kathryn Hall From: Hall Wines Website Little Bunny Foo Foo Song

Little Bunny Foo Foo,

Hopping through the forest,

Scooping up the field mice,

And bopping them on the head.



(Spoken)

Down came the Good Fairy, and she said,



"Little Bunny Foo Foo,

I don't want to see you,

Scooping up the field mice

And bopping them on the head."



(Spoken)

"I'll give you three chances,

And if you don't behave,

I'm gonna turn you into a goon!"



The next day... or That evening... or Later that night... or A few moments later… The verses then repeat three more times, with the spoken verse altered to reflect Little Bunny Foo Foo's decreasing number of chances. The alteration appears in the first line of the verse, which changes to "I'll give you two more chances" and "I'll give you one more chance", in the second and third iterations, respectively. In the fourth and final iteration, when the bunny has run out of chances, the entire spoken verse is altered as follows: "I gave you three chances,

And you didn't behave,

And now I'm gonna turn you into a goon. POOF!" From Wikipedia: Little Bunny Foo Foo

Hare today, goon tomorrow!

One common ending has Little Bunny Foo Foo turned into a goon, with a pun ending "And the moral of the story is: Hare today, goon tomorrow." This form of story telling with a pun ending is also known as a feghoot. From Wikipedia: Little Bunny Foo Foo

JON

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