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1. Hanging with the vultures here isn’t all that bad:

   On those great sails; how beautiful he looked, veering away in the sea-light over the precipice. I tell you solemnlyThat I was sorry to have disappointed him.
   To be eaten by that beak and become part of him, to share those wings and those eyes–
   What a sublime end of one’s body, what an enskyment; what a life after death.

   Robinson Jeffers.

2. Where did you take this picture?

3. Odd that people would choose to rapel down the side of a building carrying buckets.

4. Nate,

   It’s downtown Miami.

5. Ginny, I liked Mr. Jeffers poem.

   I wonder what course it would have taken had he been taking a little siesta!

6. Jon, “vultures” fine with me but all “good ole boys” I know refer to them as “buzzards”.

7. Good point Tyouth & sorry; belated link. Don’t know much about Jeffers but this was written fairly late in his life.

8. Tyouth,

   Thanks. I used to refer to them as buzzards (e.g., here) but it seems that not many people use that term online, so I decided to go with the flow. Plus, it is my understanding that in European usage “buzzard” refers to an entirely different type of bird, so why confuse things. It is a no-win situation.

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