There hasn’t been a whole lot of spectacular in my life recently but I guess the last spectacular thing that happened, that I saw, was the night I saw a Great Horned Owl, a couple of years ago. It was a grand bit of good luck and good timing. I smoke, yes I do, but I don’t smoke in my house, so I had gone out back to have a cigarette and I was sitting there and I heard this noise and looked up and this huge, I mean really huge, bird came flying in from the right, flew over my yard and landed and perched in my next door neighbor’s tree. The tree is very tall and broad and the birds seem to love it.
Even if you know that Great Horned Owls are big, that they are big and powerful enough to swoop down and grab a skunk or your cat, that they can have a wingspan of between 3 and 5 feet, I think it’s hard to get a sense of how really big they are, and this one was huge, until you actually see one. That was pretty spectacular.
Did I mention that it was huge? Because it really was. :-)