-The prairie grass glowing pinkish/red in the predawn light and the sky doing the same thing.
-A dead baby mole with human looking hands and perfectly formed fingers.
-A live baby rattlesnake with a head too large for its body. I guess all babies are born with large heads. It also had a tongue that seemed to be too big for its mouth. Maybe rattlesnakes are born with full size tongues, I don't know.
-A line of birds winging across the sky from north to south. They were spread out in a band 5 to 15 birds wide and formed a line about a half a mile long.
-A flash mob of birds that wheeled around the sky above me for three mornings. Each succeeding morning the mob got larger, morphing between the shape of a Catherine wheel and a fat comma. On the fourth morning they were gone.
-Little Sally Pumpkinhead chasing a jack rabbit right across the road in front me while yipping in glee. That rabbit was so huge it could have turned around and mugged her if it had the inclination to do so.
-The sound of a coyote howling somewhere ahead of me one morning and the sight of one moving quickly down a dry creek bed the next.
-Duke stalking a large group of feeding geese in a wheat field outside Fort Collins and then running as fast as he could at them just to watch them fly away. He did it three times and when we left each bird in the group watched him very carefully. This was amusing since feeding geese usually have only one or two birds on guard while the rest eat but Duke's behavior had them all checking to see if he was really leaving.
-Two Sunday mornings in Fort Collins a hot air balloon appeared in the sky to the south of us and drifted silently and slowly above us in a northeasterly direction.
Sail away, sail away, sail away.
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