I have been staring at Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poetry all day, and I think it is starting to get to me.

I ran across a fun word used several times in Longfellow’s poetry earlier, Weathercock.

Webster says: "Weathercock – weather vane in the shape of a cock". Still not much better for my tired brain and my lacking sense of humor. In short, it is a traditional weather vane, not one that looks like a farmhouse of a John Deere tractor or anything of that sort….

 

A Weather Cock: