Tara would have appreciated this

As I walked across the university campus, on my way to my car, I heard bird calls -- then heard a flurry of wings as a bird flew over my head and landed on a branch maybe six feet away. Some sort of parrot! Mostly orange, but with a bright green chest.

Speaking as a boy from Seattle: seeing a parrot outside a cage, and outside a zoo, and close enough that I could jump up and touch it (hypothetically; it would've flown away) is just... wacky.

Pretty spiffy. What I get for living in a sub-tropical zone.


--GG