November 22, 2005
See the birdy?
Taking an opportunity to synchronize my vibration to hypomania, as I was in New York City, and fading fast, I purchased a tall Breakfast Blend at Starbucks, and took it outside, since there was no place to sit inside, or even stand in line, for that matter.
Locating a relatively pigeon-poop-free spot on an architectural feature of the adjacent monument, I settled in to enjoy precipitating hypomania -- keeping the cover on my coffee to avoid unwanted flavoring from above.
Of course, I could not help but thinking of the avian flu, and challenged myself to shoot a few of the indigenous species flapping around me for future entires. Birds, as you may remember, move much too quickly for my digital shutter, or aperature, or something like that. I got one, though. Can you see it perched at three o'clock?
On a related, counterpuntal note, some buildings are using bird spikes to gently discourage pigeon toileting-- you can see the little fuzzy fringes above the arch and on all the possible loitering surfaces on this doorway.
Photo note: All of the above.