counting crows

You can use the magpie rhyme for counting crows, I find. (You know the rhyme - one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a wedding, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told...)

Well, this morning it was thirteen crows - not all that high overhead, all abreast (more or less) and heading west. That ought to mean something.

(Isn't magical thinking insidious? I think, and still......)