There's a bit of a story behind these owls...

You see, my gifter unknowingly (I assume) purchased these handsome prints from an online retailer - wallsthatspeak.com - that happens to be located just a couple miles from my house.

When the prints arrived, they were unframed. The packing slip in the package had contact information for the business, so I went to the website, and saw that they also sold the same prints in frames.

Given the location of the business and the fact that they have frames for these specific prints, I figured emailing them was the best place to start. This was last night.

The company's owner, Paul, emailed me back this morning. He said he definitely had a set of frames, and he could sell them to me for a fraction of the price of any other place I looked for 8" x 8" frames.

When I stopped by his shop on my way home from work, he had another set of four owl prints, framed, waiting for me. He told me to go ahead and keep the unframed prints, which I will do - I'll give them to someone else who likes owls.

Thanks to my gifter (whose name I don't even know!) for helping me discover a business right in my own backyard that I didn't even know existed. And thanks to Paul at wallsthatspeak.com. 10/10, would do business there again.