Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Everyday has the potential of becoming a total unique moment in ones life, depending on where you are in the world, what events are unfolding and most important, what moment you were there. My story was I had just turn a corner at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, while looking ahead up the path at some summer blooms and then I suddenly realized that I had totally walk up and surprised a hawk which was perched upon a sign looking into a small area in the tall green grass. I froze solid as we both turn our attention at each other and we starred right at each other for a moment. After what seemed 15 seconds, he resumed his prior activity, hopping down into the grass and begin to roll around a bit. I was not exactly sure what he was up to so I decided to prepared my camera. About that time he poped back up on the sign again and was still looking directly at me. As we both seem to find this unique and non-threatening, I decided to take the photo before the moment left. I slowly moved my camera up and somehow framed a photo before he flew off. I don't exactly know what the moment represented, but it was cool, and I think we made friends.