I'm fortunate to have a very short commute to the office every day. I think it's somewhere around 3 miles each way. But in that short 10 minute time frame I seem to see the darnedest things! Last year, after popping in the Maple Valley Market, I came outside to see this ....definitely one of the highlights of last summer.!
I live in "rural" Maple Valley, at least that's what we call it; technically, it's unincorporated King County but still I have a Maple Valley address and my kids attended Tahoma Schools.
Each day I get to drive by the Links at Olson Mansion and occasionally will spot a bald eagle perched by the U-Fish pond....lazily looking for an easy meal. (Bald eagles are HUGE by the way, but obviously very light as they barely bend the thin branches of the Leyland cypress trees)
But a few days ago, on my way home, I noticed up ahead that something seemed to blow up from the road onto a telephone line. I was a ways away but it appeared to by a garbage bag, or something dark, caught on the line and swaying in the breeze. The closer I got, the swaying was rhythmic and repetitive and something small and colorful was popping out the other side....it was a PEACOCK!!!! (Who knew they could fly? I thought they were just for "decoration"???). It had flown from the street to the telephone line and was sitting up there, cool-as-you-please rocking back and forth, it's tail going up and down.
When I told my husband the story, he said "Oh, yeah, I see them all the time on my way home.
Really?
Now I ask you, what's weirder?
Seeing a peacock on a phone line while driving home, or the fact my husband didn't think it was noteworthy?
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Colleen Fischesser is the Broker/Owner of RE/MAX Select in Maple Valley, WA. She has been successfully selling and marketing properties all over South King & North Pierce counties since 1990 but specializes in the Maple Valley Washington area. She may be contacted directly at: 425-432-5400
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