The Tamiami Trail (US Route 41) runs from Miami to Tampa. It slices through the Everglades National Park, and continues through the enormous swamp known as the Big Cypress National Preserve. When I made this photograph, the skies along the Tamiami were gray, and a light rain was falling. Five cormorants sit upon this utility wire, while a sixth perches atop a utility pole that completes the illusion of notes written upon a sheet of music. The silhouetted birds, wires, and pole, along with the gray skies, provided an utterly black and white image to begin with.