today in the semi-circle of the sky, after a brief downpour, the rain clouds lifted and the sun crept back and out of the corner of my eye I noticed movements which caused me to look up and see hundreds of birds swooping in the air, sailing in all directions, recklessly, heedlessly, black shadows against murky blue sky striped with puffy white clouds.
immediately I was transported back to a moment in time when I was standing in front of a building in Rome, whose name I can no longer remember, where hundreds of birds soared in this same frenetic fashion,
apparently, it was a common scene at dusk, the birds looking for a place to rest til dawn.
I have never seen it happen here,
was it the disturbance of the rain that unsettled them?
or just that I have never noticed it in my own city before?
4 comments:
hello darling, i am back online and catching up on your happenings. as to the birds, they are feeding. after a rain the gnats, skeeters and other bugs come back out and it is sometimes a feeding frenzy. just my theory. lol.
happy trails darling. love ya much.
it wasn't saint peter's/san pietro, was it? at the vatican, huge piazza in front of a massive church that looks more like a palace...
-d
I think it was some kind of building that was either political or musical.
it kind of looks like the opera in paris. a square front with lots of columns along the front.
I seem to remember the building cut off the street it faced and the road diverged to the left and right. it was a funky intersection. we almost got hit by a motorcyclist...
the wedding cake- a monument to vittor emmanuel. it is called the wedding cake, just plopped right in the middle of a busy road. not even a building. big, white, semicircular, with bronze man on a horse on the top. i remember motorcycle now.
-deanna
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