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chanelling tippi hedren, part two
(A shocking tale of crow violence in which your anti heroine gets tree bark thrown at her and emerges with a print to sell.)
So, I woke up early at the weekend and went a-wandering. I wasn’t hungry yet, so I didn’t head down Sunset. Instead I ended up golden-spire–bound and marched up hills towards what I was later told is a Ukrainian church.
The winding and graffiti-covered road was still misty and it was early enough that no one was around (I exchanged good-mornings with dog walkers in the lowest reaches of Elysian Park, but no one in their right mind was heading up the graffiti road like me.)
Once at the top I tried to figure out where my early-hour Elysian exploits were witnessed by coyotes all those years ago, using Dodgers’ Stadium as my landmark, but couldn’t. Then I watched a squirrel for a while before approaching the glittering cross-topped towers.
That’s when I found out that THE UKRAINIAN CHURCH IS GUARDED BY LUNATIC CROWS.
Seriously, they were tearing off bark and throwing it at me. They followed me around. The swooped low over my head. And God, the noise.
There was a feather sticking out of a tree trunk like some kind of “beware of the birds” sign. Maybe they just don’t like having their pictures taken, like me.
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That scary road is right behind our house and we have complained over and over to the Rec and Parks people to paint the graffiti out to no avail. It is just some young punk neighborhood kids doing the graffiti but isn’t it amazing how paint can make a park that is supposed to be a retreat from the urban core into an uncomfortable place. After finding your post I forwarded your comments to Eric Garcetti’s office. Maybe they can get something done about it since the park people are inept at taking card of the problem. Thanks for your story. Those damn crows wake us up every morning.