Morning, Hair, that is pretty cool that an eagle is using your dock these days - wonderful picture.
There are quite a few bald eagles in the Everglades, strangely. Once, while fishing, we saw two bald eagles dive into a flock of egrets that were flying over the mouth of one of the Everglades rivers, the Harney. The eagles grabbed one of the egrets right out of the air and flew away with it.
Am back from the funeral in VA as of Friday. Was a nice funeral, more like a low key party, many close friends from all over were there, many shared memories. The service itself was as they should be, no more than 15 minutes, no public displays of private emotion, a couple prayers, one hymn, and we're out of there - same routine at the cemetary, which was on the side of a mountain overlooking Charlottesville.
Morning, everyone.
That would have been quite a sight... I recall an eagle swooping down to pick something up once from the water, but it was a really large fish carcass, and he couldn't fly with it... eventually had to let it go, but he tried several times.
Yes it's sad to lose the Pope, but he was just a few months younger than my Mama. Maybe it was the fact that she'd suffered from Alzheimers for several years, but when she went, we were joyful that she'd finally found peace. The funeral home on the night of her wake was a raucous affair. It's a good thing no other families were there that night, they certainly would not have understood. Mama was the center of attention, as she loved to be, and we were all happy for her. Of course we were sad she was no longer with us, but that was for ourselves, not for her.
I would imagine that the Pope's friends feel like that tonight. They know he was ready to go, and they hate losing a friend, but they're celebrating his life and their friendship with him.