Carrion, My Wayward Son. There'll Be Pieces When..

Living up to my gallery name - truly, remains to be seen. The image is brought to you in non-living color.

What did the mother vulture say when her offspring asked what was for dinner? See the musical answer above. Ha-ha, you will never hear that Kansas chestnut (well, at least, peanut) again without thinking of this photograph.

or "How was your day at the office, honey? Yes, dinner will be dead enough soon. I just have to finish scraping it together. Go wash your beak."

Feeling a bit peckish? Do you want fries with that? Armadillo on the half shell? How about a piece of tail? Curbside service? Now this is what I call a DRIVE THROUGH lunch!

This image was too goo-ed to pass up. I rolled down the car window for a drive-by shooting.

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OK, the fun is over. Time for the history lesson. The ancient Egyptians revered the vulture (in their case Neophron percnopterus, in this case Coragyps atratus, the American Black Vulture (very black thanks to PS5)) for its ability to devour the dead. At least one of you should take note that the vulture hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs for the alphabetic vowel letter a.

Museum directors and curators are often compared to this noble bird for their ability to out live Museum patrons and scavenge their treasures.