Sunday, February 7, 2010
This is very strange. I am sitting in the living room enjoying a cup of much needed coffee. I was checking my email, face book, and then looking through the Internet for articles when "BANG", a pigeon flew right into my picture window. Holy Cow, I nearly jumped clear off my chair. My dog, Tommy was so startled he didn't even bark. I am surprised the glass did not break. I got up looked out the window to see if I had a dead pigeon in the yard. It got up and was staggering off down the driveway.
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This scene makes me laugh. Once we lived in a cabin we built in a deep dark holler in the Arkansas woods. The cabin was a pole structure with sliding glass doors leading to nowhere but a drop off to the ground for awhile. We kept the couch against the glass. Often in the evening we would sit and watch huge Luna moths dive for the light from our kerosene lamps, the only light within miles. Entire families of those beautiful green moths would fly into the glass, shake themselves off and fly away. But hey, we used to lay in bed at night and mimic the cicadas and other loud insects, the only sound for miles around. We learned to know them by counting their rhythms. Nothing else to do I guess, except watch the Luna moths, listen to the insects and make babies.
ReplyDeleteOne of my daughters who remembers the Luna moths sports a large Luna moth tatoo covering the middle of her back in memory of those times when she was only four (not my idea).