We always love to have visitors at Art Jewelry. Sometimes we'll get journalism students who visit the offices to see what day-to-day life at a magazine is really like. Sometimes we'll get local guilds or arts organizations who pull together a group of members for a field trip. Usually those guests are scheduled, and they sign in and get a nice shiny visitor's pass and a tour around the facilities. Sometimes, however, we get an unexpected drop-in who doesn't see the need to bother with anything as mundane as a visitor's pass.

Our guest today was a juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk, helpfully identified by the good folks at another Kalmbach publication, Birder's World. When you look up and see a massive and fierce winged presence lurking in the tree right outside your window, it's very helpful to have a team of experts just a few offices away. One of the experts arrived with multiple pairs of binoculars and an impressively lensed camera, with which he took the photo shown here...

...and we spent the next 30 minutes not working on the May issue of Art Jewelry. No worries, though, the issue is well in hand and well underway!