Strange Morning
I’m awakened by a coughing fit at 6:30 am….can’t go back to sleep, so i head for the fridge and pour myself another glass of oj…….step outside to further reduce my lungs’ ability to provide oxygen to my blood and its a strange morning…….the air is slightly chilled…..the sky is completely gray and there is a mist of fog permeating the trees…….i look to my right and there’s a bird i can’t identify…..at first i want to say it’s an owl, but a closer glance i see that it is not, but it is DEFINITELY in the hawk family……stark pointy-tipped beak and an odd noise this thing makes…..i look to my left and the blossoms on the neighbors tree have this strange pink cast to them……back to my right and the bird has disappeared…..i look across the street at the neighbors house and the bird has flown to the patio, picked something up and flown back to its perch on the streetlight…..it has used what i can only guess is keen eyesight to capture a lizard and it devours it quickly….this is an amazing thing to wake up to…..like living in the discovery channel or something…..but one has to marvel at the eyesight this bird must have had, because this lizard was a good 150 feet from the bird’s perch…..this thing didn’t break stride…..flew straight to the lizard and straight back to the streetlight without hesitation…..i took pictures…..i’ll post them later……..