The barn swallows returned to nest on the front porch again this year, building their maternity ward on the other end this time. I didn’t notice them at first and, then, one night I went out to go walking and found myself understanding in a brand new way how Tippi Hedren had to have felt when Alfred Hitchcock mentioned that her co-stars would be birds.
Of birds and butterflies
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