Did anyone see this?

[tavernier]

http://cbs4indy.com/2016/06/15/photo-49-birds-appear-over-orlando-shooting-victims-memorial/

[billymike]

1. I didn't before reading your post

and it is beautiful, so I thank you. I recall a similar report of bees swarming above an Ali memorial..."float like a butterfly; sting like a bee."

[tavernier]

2. Thanks! I wasn't sure if it had been posted before.

I'm vacationing and have missed here and there.

I didn't know about the Ali bee sightings.
Sweet!

[billymike]

3. I used to work

on a psychiatric outreach team, led by a no-nonsense, beautifully blunt psychiatrist, whose father died during my tenure there. The doc took me aside a few days after his dad died to tell me that he and his father had planted a tree together in the doctor's back yard late in the previous spring. It was now January in Iowa, and that morning a mature, male robin walked in circles around the tiny trunk as Doc stood transfixed at his kitchen window. He wanted my opinion of the soundness of his mind. So I told him about my late mother and the owls...

[tavernier]

4. And I bet that one is a duzy!

I believe most of us have had stories that belie the believable. When I was grieving my mother's death, I saw an upside down rainbow in the shape of a smile in the sky. I thought I had lost it, surely an impossibility, but later when I googled it, there it was... rare but real.

[billymike]

5. Wow, yes.

Your experience was stunning. Honestly, it sounds like a congress of mothers got together for that one. My mom seems to send owls that raise one wing, stare, and fly off slowly. Not too dramatic, but she was a shy woman.