A flock of vultures has moved into our neighborhood. There are probably forty or fifty of them. They mostly sit in a group of old, mostly dead trees. Sometimes they take off and soar around looking for roadkill, but mostly they just sit there and vulch. They must also hang around the dumpster by the neighboring apartment complex for someone put up large balloons with big eyes painted on them. I assume they are suppose to scare away the vultures.
As I was driving home, I passed by that dumpster. There hung the yellow balloons with their big eyes and there sat a vulture oblivious to the scary balloons. Would have been a good photo. Oh well...
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I have been wondering about those balloons!
I thought this post was going to be about missing the chance to get a shot of the dead tree with a couple of dozen vultures perched there...it is now nearly impossible to see well given all the summer greenery.
I spelled vultch with a t and you didn't. If we are going to get this word into the English vocabulary we need to coordinate.
Posted by: Shannon on Thursday, May 18, 2006
I kind of like it better with a 't'.
Posted by: Tara on Thursday, May 18, 2006
But this is the English language and how many words can you think of that end in 'ltch'?
I suppose what we need is a large English corpus and a Perl programmer.
Posted by: CJ Costello on Friday, May 19, 2006
cultch....the spawn of an oyster
Take that and eat it for dinner!!
Posted by: Shannon on Friday, May 19, 2006
Pleeease - try to convince me that you knew this word. (Long delay due to crazy work project)
Posted by: CJ Costello on Monday, June 5, 2006
You mean, you didn't know it?
Posted by: Shannon on Wednesday, June 7, 2006
No, and neither did you.
Posted by: CJ Costello on Thursday, June 8, 2006
How can you make such an unfounded accusation! Can you demonstrate that I did not know that word?
Posted by: Shannon on Sunday, June 11, 2006
Okay take it outside, you two.
Posted by: Tara on Wednesday, June 14, 2006
I was able to further investigate your missed photo opportunity during my run this morning.
It turns out that the vultures on the fence are on sentry duty...the rest are inside the dumpster.
Posted by: Shannon on Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Are they turkey vultures? They are real homely.
Posted by: Gram on Saturday, June 24, 2006