Photographic proof of a small gremlin….
…or perhaps merely a screech owl sitting on a sign in a neighbor’s yard.
You can’t see the little bird vibrating, but it was producing its distinctive whirring trill — that was how we found it.
It was newly dark, and well beyond the camera’s ability to shoot anything like a real photo, especially without a tripod. But dinking around with the pathetic pixels in photo-editing software produced surprising detail and a painterly, almost pastel-like quality in this image of a small owl and its background, an enormous blooming ocotillo lit from below by landscaping lights.
Why am I not surprised that you have gremlins in your garden?
Because you’re in the gremlin loop?