Owl O'Clock

 

I used to draw pictures of owls peeking through big, round knotholes in trees when I was a kid. Every tree I drew had an owl. And the birds were always great horned owls with their tufted ears, even if I didn't know that at the time. This was just the iconic outline of an owl that I would see in cartoons.

Little did I know that I would spend my life looking at empty knothole after empty knothole in search of owls only to be perpetually disappointed. But I finally found one big, dark knothole that lived up to my childhood expectations.