Soaring Vulture

For The Flickr Lounge Weekly Theme 'Simplicity.'

It reminds me of the poem by John Gillespie Magee, ‘High Flight’ . . .

 

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,

I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air . . .

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Image cropped because the vulture was far away.

 

Viewed from Craycroft Blvd. and River Road, in the Catalina Foothills, looking West.

Mountain Time 14:59:00 PM

July 1, 2021

 

Tags:

Simplicity Soaring Afternoon "Summer Monsoon" Raptor Vulture "Tucson, Arizona" "Catalina Foothills" "American Southwest" "North America" "High Flight"

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