Maria Kaylor
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A Photo 40 Years in the Making
We used to mimic their sounds when we were kids to taunt one another. The distinctive sound of the peacocks’ honk followed by its loud call, “er reh, er reh”. We simply liked to mimic the sound as “er waa, er waa”, as in a baby crying. We used that sound whenever one of the five of us was feeling a little bit sorry for ourselves. There were only two peacocks to start when we moved out to the countryover forty years ago, and they belonged to the neighbors at the bottom of the hill. There were only 5 houses on the on half-mile street so there was no denying where those peacocks came from. We would slow down when we drove by to get a glimpse of them. And occasionally, the lady of that house would drop a feather by for my mom. My mom would collect them and put them in a tall vase in our 70’s sunken living room.
By Maria Kaylor3 years ago in Earth