As I was driving home the other grey, overcast day, I noticed a crow on the side of the road.
Living in the Pacific Northwest as I do, neither grey skies nor crows are an unusual sight,
but as I looked up past the crow, there were some more over to the right....
...and even more to the left....
...and *more* fluttering eerily overhead...
I must say there was some looking-over-my-shoulder on the way home...***
I think I'll stick to Poe. At least he has only one 'nevermore' raven, rather than a Hitchcockian 'murder' of crows......
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they are attracted to paranoia!
Funny thing is, they are sailing past my window too, an ocean and a continent away! Funny? Spooky, that is, isn't it? And they seem to be "hooded crows", as one of my sweet visitors has pointed out to me.
They are having a crow caucus...ok, bad pun, but someone had to say it! :)
For awhile in our town, the crows would pick a spot to stay and stay for a long time. There would be hundreds! It was very much like a Hitcock moment1 If nothing else, you didn't want to walk on the sidewalk!
One especially brutal winter I was walking through the local cemetery and I noticed a massive number of mangy vultures weighing down a tree. I went over to investigate. Beneath the tree was a partially consumed carcass . . . a deer. A thin layer of new snow covered the untouched parts like someone had pulled a sheet partly over the deceased. Two hours later I passed by again and the deer was gone. Consumed by nature.
Not so much Poe or Hitchcock, more Steven King I think.
Now would an artist take pictures of such a gruesome sight? I did.
PS: My wife got her middle name from "The Raven." Her parents liked Poe.
I think they are gorgeous birds :) Didn't realize how small they are compared to Ravens though. Ravens are huge o.0
Looks like it's the annual crow family gathering for Thanksgiving... :)
By 'Steven King' of course I meant the English artist/naturalist, not the horror author Stephen King . . . unless I'm just stupid.
I expect they got fed up with Ellen continually doing their portraits and hopped across the border!
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