PS -- Brainpanhandler, Tippi is of course a fundamental art-w-girls-n-birds icon, and definitely belongs here. But in the interest of guarding my fragile and newly acquired potential self-esteem, I just want to note that it was in fact a photo from that same shoot that prompted me to start this thread. It's over on the "Great Tits" jamboree and pancake breakfast. It's a picayune point to raise, I know. But I hope you'll forgive me. Because I really can't help it. That's just my personality.
The really freaky thing is that I had no idea.
And the really, really freaky thing is that I had the most astonishing synchronicity this morning after I posted The Birds pics. I hit submit and went outside to have a smoke. I live in a small midwestern city, but populous enough to need more than a few large landfills. We also have several fairly sizable lakes. And so we have a population of seagulls, but not in my neighborhood, ever, until this morning. So I'm standing there, enjoying a smoke and the quiet of 4am before the city starts to wake up when all of the sudden a small flock (6 or 7) of astonishingly raucous seagulls descends on the back yard, screeching and bickering at ear splitting decibels. I couldn't quite see what they were squabbling over.
Now all this noise apparently wakes some nearby crows and they start squawking and bitching. Now it's an all out swooping, flapping, screech fest. The crows are angrily cawing at the seagulls and the seagulls are careening around in the air and swooping down on the trees where the crows are. It's a freakin' bird war. And about as fast as the whole thing started, it ended. The seagulls flew offf and the crows settled back down.
Needless to say I was a bit freaked out. I experience little sychronicities all the time. They seem to come in clusters. This one stands out rather starkly and no meaning really suggests itself, yet.
ps: Shortly after posting this I was flipping around cable and ran across a
trailer for The Birds playing on TCM. The Birds is showing at 3:45 pm.
TCM schedule for July 4th It's been a few years since I have seen the film.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.
by barracuda » Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:58 pm 
