Rare sighting of a roadrunner - this was on back patio of Phx Law Group office in north Scottsdale. There is a quite large roadrunner nest in upper part of an office window, tucked beneath overhang.
Picture quality not so good here - it's a cell phone photo taken through the office blinds (even then the bird was super-wary), and cropped-a-lot. And these birds look much larger when the tail is "down" - didn't get that right either.
But I like it nonetheless.
"In his domestic administration my father had this system . . . to keep a journal and insert in it all occurrences of any note . . . A record very pleasant to look at when time begins to efface the memory of events, and very well suited to get us out of perplexity: When was such and such a thing begun? When completed? What retinues came? How long did they stay? Our trips, our absences; marriages; deaths; the receipt of happy or unhappy news . . . An ancient custom, which I think it would be good to revive, each man in each man's home. And I think I am a fool to have neglected it." (Montaigne, Book I, Essay 35 (publ. 1580))

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