{"id":2333,"date":"2018-08-29T17:11:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2018-08-29T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T21:11:18","slug":"vistors-with-wings-most-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"vistor’s (with wings) most welcome…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, while I am at work,\u00a0 my husband is home
\nfixing for me, a couple of
\nleaky taps
\nin and out,\u00a0 the gate is open
\nas he steps outside,\u00a0 he sees before him a dog
\nwho has just emerged from our pond no less
\njust as it is registering that this is not one of our dogs
\nthis dog,\u00a0 a lab or possibly a retriever,\u00a0 bolts
\nout the gate, leaving only large wet paw prints behind
\nwhile I am slightly annoyed surveying the state of the pond\u2019s surface
\nwater lettuces strewn about and toppled over
\nI am also just a little bit delighted at the cheek
\nof this intruder
\nwho dashed in for a sly splash
\nand then
\ndisappeared
\nas well as the thought of someone\u2019s dog returning home from a
\nrun free
\ncuriously, soaking wet!<\/p>\n

Today the garden again is breathing peace
\nquite full of late summer activity
\nthe bustling of bees, butterflies and moths
\ncrickets sing and the cicadas rattle in increasing volume
\ntoday\u2019s bit of paradise, \u00a0rather abundant in the activity of hummingbirds
\nso very many
\neven though I am currently out of seed
\na young blue (jay)\u00a0 seems to light every time I step out
\nhe is a rather scruffy fellow, still gaining his plumage
\nI send him my apologies for the lack of delicacies
\nI have to offer
\nand he responds in the sweetest little trills
\nwe, both of us are being quite courteous to the other
\nenjoying our
\nspace
\nas I walk and we continue to chat, I extend further I\u2019m sorry’s
\nto the chipmunks and squirrels
\nI haven\u2019t much good to say to the mosquitoes who are so very persistent
\non another humid overcast day
\nmy beautiful painted daisies have returned, and are certainly most welcome
\nI just love them at every stage, and snap their transitions of
\nopening
\nperhaps I think to myself,\u00a0 I
\nam just that –\u00a0 a painted daisy
\nIn the most gorgeous
\npink
\nthis thought makes me smile
\nmy lovely thistle is looking rather wild today,
\nhumidity and rain having curled her fluffy wishes before they could fly
\nthey gather all clumpy around her like frills
\nthis time of year has me already thinking of spaces I can fill
\nin next years gardens
\nas well as places to expand
\nbriefly In my head,\u00a0 I become like a mad scientist
\nbut then the appearance of the sun
\nbegins to warm one shoulder
\nilluminating bare skin
\nand this to me
\nwarm and luminous
\nexquisite
\nlove
\nI smile up at the sky
\nwatch wispy white clouds
\nsail
\nand speak
\nmy gratitude
\nI look at the intricate threads of a spider web
\ngolden in the light
\namazingly constructed
\na hummingbird comes to perch just beside me
\nand I realize I have set the camera down
\ninside
\nso I am content to just
\nwatch and
\nadmire
\na very plump bumblebee lolls in the centre of a Rose of Sharon
\nflower
\nhe is so very covered in pollen,\u00a0 I wonder how it is he expects to obtain
\nlift off
\nhe does\u2026
\nI look up again to the vast blue sky above
\nwatch a hawk soaring overhead
\nthen,\u00a0 feeling myself quite wonderfully bathed in gratitude
\nI remember what I was supposed to be doing
\nhead back to the house
\nopening the door,\u00a0 again it is lyrics to a song that usher me in
\nwhen I hear,<\/p>\n

\u266a\u00a0 but you can\u2019t fly,\u00a0 unless you let yourself<\/em>
\nfall\u00a0 ..\u00a0 \u266a<\/em><\/p>\n

yup,\u00a0 I say to myself,
\nblessings of a day
\nit is this,
\nand so
\nmuch
\nmore\u00a0 \u2665<\/p>\n

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