Our neighborhood roadrunner, rewriting the old chicken-crossing-the-street thing.

Our neighborhood roadrunner, rewriting the old chicken-crossing-the-street thing.
The reason why this roadrunner crossed the street is that I stalked it across our front yard and into a neighbor’s so I could get a good snapshot of it; and it was trying to avoid me. The picture is heavily processed, obviously. Namely to disguise the annoying pixellation that resulted when I blew up the shot on my tablet. Thing is, all I had on me was my cellphone – which has a good-enough 8 megapixel digital camera in it – but not much of a zoom lens. The bird was barely noticeable in the frame. Had to do a blow-up…

