{"id":1828,"date":"2011-09-27T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2011-09-27T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:07:21","slug":"all-creatures-great-and-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/all-creatures-great-and-small\/","title":{"rendered":"All creatures great and small."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going through some photos on my camera card and came across these photos of some moths the girls had found on our front deck.<\/p>\n

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They knew I love to snap photos of interesting things, so they called me to come take a look, and to bring my camera.<\/p>\n

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\n*as you can see, they’ve developed my love of awesomeness too. hee hee.<\/em><\/p>\n

As I was looking through these photos, especially the ones that show the details of the moth,<\/p>\n

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I found myself pondering whether I felt the moth was pretty,<\/p>\n

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or ugly?<\/p>\n

In either case, I definitely find it fascinating.<\/p>\n

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As I do pretty much all creatures.<\/p>\n

That is, until I got to the next photos. These were the very next photos on my card.<\/p>\n

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This is one creature I consider pure ugly.<\/p>\n

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Not at all fascinating, just ugly.<\/p>\n

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A vulture.<\/p>\n

We see them periodically around here. One time, a few years back, we had three of them on the property. Each one sat on a different fence post at the horse pasture. One on each post, 1, 2, 3, ugly creatures. They all sat just like this one, wings spread out wide.<\/p>\n

I have to admit, THAT was slightly fascinating.<\/p>\n

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But this single vulture on this day sitting in a dead tree overlooking our pasture?
\nFascinating? No. Ugly, and even disgusting? Yep.<\/p>\n

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And when he finally flew away, I was glad to see him go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going through some photos on my camera card and came across these photos of some moths the girls had found on our front deck. They knew I love to snap photos of interesting things, so they called me to come take a look, and to bring my camera. *as you can see, they’ve […]<\/p>\n

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