Quite startling to be sitting in the living room in wonder valley and see a bird impaled on a cactus.I don’t find the image gruesome as there is some perfect sense of balance in how it was temporarily froZen in time with feathers splayed ever so.
Then there was the impaled finch we noticed on the cactus.
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Wow— this happened in your yard? Life is a gift, let’s breathe in before we’re impaled…