Yesterday on my way home from work, I spot the sharp-shinned hawk on a neighbour\u2019s front lawn
\nas he rather joyfully enjoys a shower from their sprinkler
\nhe\u2019s just beautiful with his ruffled brown and white wet feathers
\nand I am quite simply in awe
\nthis morning the Blue\u2019s are back, as they have been for a few days
\nand I am thrilled to welcome them
\nnot sure where they may have traveled to, but they do seem to have been missing from the garden for a few weeks
\nwhich was ok, as we certainly have welcomed several other families in the meantime
\none brave young blue with funny bits of fluff and odd feathers sticking out
\nstays quite close to me
\nas I\u2019m wandering
\nhe is patiently waiting as I greet each flower in turn
\nuntil I stop a moment to take notice, of him there
\nso that he can remind me
\nit is time to replenish the monkey nuts that I put out for them
\nthis I do, and I also refresh the bird bath by the apple tree
\nwhere they seem to congregate
\nit appears again there are five, to this year\u2019s brood
\nI can certainly tell the young ones
\nthey are often a little braver and always seem to respond when I
\nchat away to them
\ntelling them, \u201cIt\u2019s ok,\u00a0 C\u2019mon then\u2026 ,
\nYou\u2019re safe with me\u201d
\nthese days they are avoiding the paparazzi, as soon as the camera comes out
\nthey disappear
\nI can certainly relate to this, and I let them have their privacy
\nand instead just enjoy watching them
\nit is swelteringly hot today,\u00a0 and the girls, as well as the dog
\nhave begged me for the air conditioning
\nso I have obliged their desperate pleading
\nclosed up the house to keep it cool
\nand I instead
\ncome out to join the Blue\u2019s
\nin sunshine
\nthis feeling of warm sun on my shoulders
\nis to me
\npure bliss
\nwhen all of the nuts have been gathered up
\none cheeky blue comes to perch on the pergola
\nabove my chair to see if he can\u2019t convince me to offer
\njust a few more
\nhe chatters away to me gently in his softest tones
\nflattering me I know
\nas I coo back to him great admiration for his lovely bit of white-ish
\ntummy fluff
\nhe edges ever closer to me
\nas we chat
\nand I am sure we have become fast friends
\nin kindness
\nin bits of mulch on the ground I spot a tiny little movement
\nthe itty-bittiest little toad is making his way
\nin the world
\nand my heart opens to him
\nas he goes
\nhe is so very tiny, and the great world around him
\nso very large
\nso many ways to be stepped on or lost
\nI too can feel this, and so
\nI try to bless him on his path to
\nfreedom
\nmy tadpoles have indeed sprouted their legs
\nand now begin their leaving
\nthe surface of the pond lies hidden under a cover of
\nbrilliant green duckweed
\nit is plentiful, as happens this time of year in the heat and humidity
\nof summer days
\nand although this obscures the sight of much else
\nit does I suppose offer a bit of protection to these
\nlittle fellows, as they bravely go
\nI have not seen Biggie Smalls (the frog) for several days,
\nas he is always free to go, I wonder if possibly
\nhe went
\nbut then as I stand, just quietly by
\nI hear his lovely croak
\nand realize he is most probably, \u00a0just keeping cool
\nin the rushes
\nand just hearing him, is enough to know
\nhe is still there
\na beautiful dragonfly rests on a hyacinth leaf
\nhis sleek black wings setting off the neon turquoise of his body
\nhe is gorgeous
\nand I tell him so
\nand so he stays,\u00a0 to be admired
\nanother brilliant sighting of a monarch in the wildflowers
\nhas my heart aflutter
\nin grand appreciation<\/p>\n
My husband has set off on his bike,
\nhe soon comes back to tell me that apparently in the early morning hours
\nthe train has derailed
\nabout a block and a half from our house
\nupturned train cars scrumpled together
\nand scattered on the road
\nlike a child\u2019s fallen building blocks
\nquite surprisingly
\nwe heard nothing
\nhot summer evening,
\nwindows open in the night
\nyet no one in the house
\ndisturbed in sleep
\nthankfully we learn, there were no injuries
\nno dangerous materials to spill
\njust a rather large crumpling of rail cars
\na little disconcerting
\nthis being
\nso close<\/p>\n
but certainly yet again a very real reason for
\nexpressing sincere
\ngratitude
\nsitting here
\nin \u00a0the peaceful
\nbeauty
\nof all this<\/p>\n
and too, for not missing a moments appreciation
\nof beauty
\nof simple
\nof tiny
\nof delicate<\/p>\n
and the great blessing and
\nquiet
\nnature
\nof this life
\nI
\nLove<\/p>\n
my husband comes to kiss me
\nsays I love you
\nand heads off to work
\nand I
\nreturn to my garden
\nto sit for awhile
\nin gratitude, in peace and
\nin Love
\nwith the Blue\u2019s beside me
\nand yes,<\/p>\n
always
\nto say my Thank you
\nto you this day<\/p>\n
for being kind \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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