Hitchcock Versus The Groundhog
...Azure skies shone as the bright sun made everything sparkle. It was making February in Ohio seem as though spring had already arrived with uncommonly mild weather. What an odd winter we have had this year as everywhere around us was slammed with snow and ice storms, as we hardly knew what happened around our protective bubble of weather. Local lawnmowers have been tuning up in anticipation of the green grass season soon to come. The groundhog was highly confused as he had no sun shining on his big day. ”You woke me up for this?!!!", he seemed to say. No shadow for Punxatawny Phil this year. Everyone other than Phil was of course thrilled. In reality, I saw neighborhood groundhogs searching for food last week and slipping under my neighbor's porch. Even the birds are a bit confused as to whether it is spring or not. Last week I had an Alfred Hitchcock moment when the noise of large flocks of birds drew my attention to my kitchen window. What I saw stunned me as