Why?

Why.  It is a simple word.  Only 3 letters out of an alphabet of 24 letters.  Put a question mark after the word and you have a simple word that can result in complex answers, or none at all.  Answers.  Yes, answers.  Presidents have been impeached, countries have failed when answers to the simple question of "why" have not been answered, or the answer has failed to satisfy.  Satisfaction.  Ah, satisfaction.  What is satisfaction but simple answers to the simple question, why.   Why, why, why!

This brings me to the Seattle SeaHawks Super Bowl loss tonight.  Some will say that the SeaHawks lost the game.  Some will say that the New England Patriots won the game.  Some will say that the Patriots didn't win the game, the SeaHawks lost the game.  It is all utterly confusing.  My view is that the Patriots clearly won the game.  You would have to be an idiot to say otherwise.  Just look at the score.  No, my confusion does not lie with the  question of win or loss, my confusion lies with the play that resulted in the interception on the 1 yard line, with under 1 minute to go.  Less than one minute, ball on the 2 yard line, one time out left, the premier back in the league, "The Beast - M. Lynch", a quarterback that is as mobile as any in the league, and out of all the running plays at your disposal, with the SuperBowl title within your grasp, the game all but won - you throw the ball.  Why?  Why?  In the following days we will hear many answers to this question.  It will not change the result of Super Bowl 49.  Tom Brady wins his 4th Super Bowl ring.  Seattle fans hope that the final play of the game for the SeaHawks will not be a curse.

To all the heart broken Seattle SeaHawk fans I say, wait until next year......

I leave you on a happier note.  It is a story of a Hawk.  Not a SeaHawk.  This one is a Cooper's Hawk.   I guarantee that this hawk will bring a smile to your face.   Dana and I were out birding yesterday.  We have had 3 days of rain here in the desert.  The rain had finally stopped and we were able to bird at one of our favorite spots, Granite Reef, on the Salt River.   I was searching for a small bird, a Black-and-White Warbler when I was more or less startled to see this Cooper's Hawk perched not far up in a tree.  I proceeded to take a few photos when suddenly the hawk fanned it's tail.  I kept shooting and got this photo.  So cheer up SeaHawk fans.  There are plenty of hawks out there that will make you happy.  Simplify your life.  Go birding and forget about football, at least for the next 6 months.....  See, it really is simple after all.....