Seen at night

[ellid]

Recently I've been taking a back road home from work. It's unpaved for much of its length, and cuts through a field much used to launch hot air balloons during warm weather.

Obviously there haven't been any balloon launches lately, but that doesn't mean no flying things. Twice in recent weeks I've spotted feathered things flash past, pale and large in my headlights as I drive carefully down the frozen dirt. I'm not sure what one was - it broke like a pheasant but was the wrong color, even for a hen - but the other was a barn owl, its great buff and brown wings scooping air without a sound as it flew overhead.

I love living in the country.

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[gardengirl6.livejournal.com]

In summer you will also see radio-controlled aircraft flying there, in the field on the south side. It *is* gorgeous, isn't it?

I grew up right around the corner from where I now live, and any time we went "away," we'd come home that way. As we crested the hill, just before the town line, those corn fields just shouted "home!" to me. Now, living even closer to them, I am very, very content.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Moody Bridge Road is wonderful, pure and simple.

[samantha-vimes.livejournal.com]

Barn owls are so beautiful

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Their faces remind me of Siamese cats, oddly enough. They're beautiful in flight, and so very quiet.

[varianor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's grand. I've seen a reddish colored hawk twice recently while doing snow-removal. That's so neat.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Red tails are great.