Life in general has thrown everyone for a loop. That is why I have come to find yet another blessing in my affinity for gardening and bird watching. It solidifies the bittersweetness of the realization that life always continues. The world doesn’t stop.
And so, today, while talking to a friend on the phone and gazing out one of my back windows for the zillionth time I saw, wonder of wonders, that a hummingbird has returned to our garden. Perhaps it was only a fly-by, still the sugar water has been boiled and sits cooling on the counter. The hummingbird feeder from two dry summers ago has been washed in hot soapy water and is air-drying.
Welcome back Flick. And thank you for reminding me, that no matter how troubling life might find me the sun will go down, evening fall, and a new day arise.
