What kind of urban predator breaks off a pigeon’s wing at the shoulder and leaves it, intact, on a sidewalk? A man, right? Do cats do that? I saw the wing, which looked like it had been attached as recently as yesterday, while walking on a residential street. The feathers were all there. It looked like a pretty clean break.
Yesterday:
High: 54°
Low: 24°
Review: ★★★☆.
I didn’t take a photo. I was thinking about the person I’d made up in my mind who had caught this pigeon and taken its wing off at the shoulder.
So feel free to tell me it was a cat.
We don’t really have much else in my neighborhood. I don’t even see raccoons.
I have been thinking about shoulders a lot lately, though. There’s the wing I saw. And someone close to me has a shoulder injury. And another person I know had a shoulder problem that tipped doctors off to a bigger problem. And last night the sky was so clear that I looked up and easily saw, even on my light-polluted street, Taurus and Orion, and in particular Orion’s shoulder, which is the red giant . I looked it up later and learned that it’s so big that if its center were where our sun’s center is, the edge of Betelgeuse would reach all the way past the asteroid belt, even past Jupiter.
But of course it’s not here, it’s way out there, and it’s , and then Orion’s shoulder will be even brighter, for a while.
Open thread below. Today’s prompt: Do you have a favorite constellation?
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