Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!!
This has become a common sound in our house! It is the sound of birds flying into our windows. Now perhaps I could understand this if our windows were the Windex kind of clean. You know the commercial. But that is certainly not the case here. I assure you.
At first it was a little scary. It began around the time we had our bonfire. We'd be sitting watching TV and hear a crunching thunk against the window! We'd all look around at each other with these 'WTH' looks on our faces. What was going on? The thunking wasn't limited to just one room. I'd be dressing in the bedroom and hear it--thunk. I'd nearly jump out of my skin. We soon discovered the source. The dumb birds had gone craazzzzy. They were crashing into the windows at top speed!
I think we may have called up some bad stuff when we had that bonfire. My husband is a bit of a pyro, always wanting bigger better fires. This time he burned a mattress, among other discarded furnishings. He thought it would be cool to watch it burn. It was very cool. That mattress went up fast and burned hot! It was very intriguing to me.
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| Remains of mattress and chest |
So intriguing that I ran for my camera and began snapping away. As I reviewed the pictures, some interesting images jumped out at me. I saw....faces in the flames. Frankly, the images scared me, and not long after, I made my husband put out the fire. My eyes could have been playing tricks on me, but you can decide if you see what I see.
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| The Face Within the Flame |
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| This looks like a 'tragedy' mask. |
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| This really captured me--the 'eyes. |
And so now.....we have birds crashing into the windows. I fear that we may have unleashed some evil that has caused the birds to go mad, crashing blindly into the windows. Are they trying to get in and poke my eyes out? Or will I walk outside to find sad little bird carcasses littered around the house, bringing plagues and disease? My little dog ZuZu had already brought me a 'gift' of dead bird. I hope it wasn't a sacrifice.
Now of course there is some logical reason for the crazy birds. There has to be!! My 15 year old son, himself tired of the constant thunks, decided to investigate.! He discovered that our windows perfectly reflect our neighbors trees. The birds, obviously misjudging the distance, were mistaking the reflected trees for the real thing. They don't use the term 'bird brain' for nothing. So that explains the birds, but not the images that I captured in the fire--that................
I'm going to chalk that up to an overactive imagination.
