This is the logo for Gesine Confectionary and Gourmet Market in Montpelier, Vermont. (Actually, it closed last Christmas, but only because the owner, Gesine Bullock-Prado, has moved on to bigger and better things.) Ms. Bullock-Prado wrote a terrific memoir called Confections of a Closet Master Baker: One Woman's Sweet Journey from Unhappy Hollywood Executive to Contented Country Baker.
I loved the book, and the recipe for sticky buns...
Her husband is a graphic artist who designed her logo, which, as with most design-y things featuring birds, I adore.
It looked really familiar to me, but I couldn't place it, until I was thumbing through Eyewitness: Eagle & Birds of Prey and saw something similar to this:
(Image of an Athenian Tetradrachm, ca. 480 BC, from The Smithsonian's National Numismatic Collection.)
Athenian owls are wonderful and quite distinctive - an excellent inspiration!
(Sign image from Wikipedia.org.)
