Some Origami Crane Pictures
After my son took me to visit Hiroshima in 2003, I began folding origami cranes. Eventually, I wanted to see how small I could make them, so started making them from graph paper. The graph-paper cranes eventually became dubbed, "nerd cranes". Nerd cranes of different sizes make a nerd-crane family. If I use different kinds of graph paper, it becomes a mixed-race, nerd-crane family. As you can see, I have piles of them on my desk, computer and monitor.
At home we have flocks of them on most available horizontal surfaces, file cabinets, book cases, the piano, etc. My wife is not thrilled with this, but she takes it with good grace most of the time.
The small strings of colored cranes are just right for hanging from a car's rear view mirror, in lieu of fuzzy dice or St. Christopher medals. I talk to my car cranes as I drive.
