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Going into his fifth spring, and with his beak well mended, my old friend, Chirp, is still the most beautiful cardinal in the garden here in Kansas, especially when the setting January sun strikes his feathers right. I have great affection for the old bird, because he was the first to welcome me to Kansas. As you can see, his right leg is broken, and does not grip the branch. This wound came to my attention first in my photo, "Exit Up", which won me a DD. His broken leg is obvious there, but no one mentioned it. Our vision is always constrained by what we expect to see, unless our hearts are tuned to the other, as is the case of my own heart towards Chirp. If you blow up this image, his wound is obvious.

Description
Going into his fifth spring, and with his beak well mended, my old friend, Chirp, is still the most beautiful cardinal in the garden here in Kansas, especially when the setting January sun strikes his feathers right. I have great affection for the old bird, because he was the first to welcome me to Kansas. As you can see, his right leg is broken, and does not grip the branch. This wound came to my attention first in my photo, "Exit Up", which won me a DD. His broken leg is obvious there, but no one mentioned it. Our vision is always constrained by what we expect to see, unless our hearts are tuned to the other, as is the case of my own heart towards Chirp. If you blow up this image, his wound is obvious.