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Wed May 27 2009

I went for a ride on my bike early this morning.

It's supposed to be hot today and I wanted to do it when it was nice out. I don't do heat. I'm terrible at it. I saw a few other people in my neighborhood who had the exact same idea. Walkers mostly.

Anyway, I toodled around and came to my favorite street in our whole subdivision. It's on the eastern edge and curves around sharply making a rather cozy atmosphere for some reason. Intimate, kind of.  I wish I lived on that street sometimes. As I passed by the sharpest part of the bend in the road, there on my right, big as life was a male peacock sitting on top of the fence!  I stopped dead in my tracks and stared at him. He was only about 15 feet away from me.

He looked at me, I looked at him. He wasn't worried. He stood there allowing me to admire him in all his magnificence for a good minute or so. Finally he spread his wings and jumped down into someone's back yard.

I'm really surprised he was there as we aren't SUPPOSED to have such birds in our neighborhood.... [more's the pity].  But I'm really glad he IS here. CC&R's be hanged. 

Of course I didn't have my camera with me. So I don't have a nice picture for you. I really should learn to take that with me wherever I go. But how was I to know I would see something so out of the ordinary on a Wednesday morning? Even if it WAS on my favorite street and all.

I'll try to be more diligent about taking the camera with me from now on. I really will. I mean who knows? I might come around the corner one day and come face to face with a unicorn. And wouldn't I feel silly if my camera was at home?

(Cupcake, I hate to break it to you, but you ARE a unicorn. Which as everyone knows is a creature with an over active imagination. Snap out of it!)

You better be careful ( ). I'll sic the peacock on you.

(That'll be the day.)




5 Comments
  • From:
    Dustbunny3 (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 27 2009
    That would be suprise!! Take note and be thankfull you do not have Him in your backyard for they are messy ,noisey and reallyyyy loud.Also act like a guard dog. If you will remember Gerald Holtz had a pair at his farm next to where the woods we were going to build. You could hear them clear over at Russells pond, scream a women in distress.
  • From:
    Mamallama (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 27 2009
    Peacocks. Pretty birds.
    But your dad's right.
    I used to live down the road from a woman who raised them. They would start screaming in the middle of night and sound like someone was being murdered.
    Cured my wanting them for pets.
    Gorgeous birds. Noisy, loud birds.
    Trust me. You don't want them.
  • From:
    Mamallama (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 27 2009
    Never leave home without your camera again, cause ya just never know.
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 27 2009
    A Peacock!! Wow!! The only ones I've ever seen in the real were at a park (someplace north of here?).

    OH my ! If this isn't incentive enough to carry your camera with you, I don't know what it'll take.


    Bless
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu May 28 2009
    See, that's a reminder of why we should always keep our cameras with us, just as I missed the non-indiginous mating swans a couple of months ago *sigh*. All the good stuff happens when we aren't properly armed *whines*.

    Cardiff Castle in Wales has resident peacocks, the full colored and the albino. They're fairly aggresive critters so be careful ;)