Something wicked….

On this particular evening, as the sun was setting behind the clouds, the sky had an eerie kind of glow to it.  I was at my mother’s house and snapping a few photos here and there when I walked by her now bare walnut tree and noticed this shot.  

What I didn’t notice until afterwards was the group of birds flying towards me.  I noticed them when I lowered the camera….I don’t remember seeing them prior to taking the photo, but there they were. 

Large birds, normally gulls, are not unusual around my mother’s house.  She lives near a large river, which feeds into the Chesapeake Bay.  There are vultures that hang around that area sometimes.  At times I have driven to her house to see them sitting  en masse (the creepy way vultures hang about) on a church rooftop across from her house.  To me, there is something creepy and unsettling about seeing a crowd of vultures lurking about. 

 At the moment I noticed those birds, a cold and eerie feeling swept over me and I recalled the words from William Shakespeare’s play, MacBeth ….

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”

I decided I had enough photos for the day…..time to go inside!  🙂