About to graduate, which soon leaves time to start blogging again! It's amazing how little time there is when one is trying to finish graduate school ;) Looking forward to having time to appreciate more of these moments.
One observation that I made today...along the theme of gratitude for small things. The first was a sound that caught my ear as I was walking to the grocery store today. I was complaining to myself about the lack of the car, "this would just be SO much easier if I had a car, and I could avoid the heat, and happily take home as many groceries as I wanted because I wouldn't have to worry about how much I could actually carry home!" But then I heard the strangest noise. Well, more like the call of a bird that, to my East-coast ear, sounded like a parrot, or at least something sub-tropical. I started looking around at the *few trees around me, since there are not that many in Arizona, except for little patches here and there in the washes where you might find a small cluster of bushes. I saw a flock of pigeons that are probably the same bunch that like to hang around my neighbors yard (I think he feeds them). Not those. Then, I saw it...a small quail! Hanging out on the top branch of a palo verde, nestled among a few other bushes. I happy to be a bit of a bird watching geek, apparently, because I immediately flipped out my phone and took a small recording.
*insert recording here*
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzJPMCi5tI2YRXYzbWUxQWdoaWc/edit?usp=sharing
I remember a conversation I had with a native Arizonan once about cardinals. One flew by, during winter, and their immediate response was one of awe and wonder. "Wow, did you see that! I just saw a cardinal!" and my immediate response was, "so?" Truth be told, even as a bird lover, they are so commonplace back home in Maryland that I am honestly a little sick of cardinals. They are pretty birds, but definitely not one of my favorite. Well, for me, this was my version of that reaction. "Wow! It's a quail!" and I pull out my phone and take a video of it hopping its way down the tree branch like a true tourist. :P
It definitely made my day.
OK, now to finishing my final term paper….which will be the
last paper I will ever have to write! *cheers to graduation!
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