HUMMINGBIRD -- Looking Over My Shoulder

                               (Photo Source: National Geographic online images)
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(16 APR 2011 -- The HUMMINGBIRDS that dance among the trees branches and hover upon the soft breezes are a delight to behold as they go about the daily business of gathering, nesting, and raising their young.  This morning I was in the backyard early and watering the garden by hand with the hose, (the sprinklers still needed repair).  A couple of HUMMINGBIRDS came within two feet of my head and helped themselves to a SHOWER from the water spray from my handheld garden hose.  I was thrilled and delighted and my heart was lightened; and I felt honored that they would feel safe enough to grace me with their closeness and presence.  dht-2011)

Some great YouTube Videos of hummingbirds

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-e7qPT8EM&feature=player_embedded#at=49  ]

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cAHedt8r-k&feature=player_embedded  ]

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4WPBzlk3Bk&feature=player_embedded  ]

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPxaqk2gdYE&feature=player_embedded  ]


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HOPE YOU ENJOY THESE Hummingbird QUOTES

Hummingbird shows us how to re-visit the past for the purpose of releasing it instead of being caught in a permanently backward flight pattern.  It also helps us to see that if we step aside we may see our life differently.  Hummingbird teaches us to transcend time, to recognize that what has happened in the past and what might happen in the future is not nearly as important as what we are experiencing now.  It teaches us to hover in the moment, to appreciate its sweetness. [~Constance Barrett Sohodski Quotes]

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.  [~Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays]

My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.  [~Terri Guillemets]

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?  [~Rose F. Kennedy]

There are joys which long to be ours.  God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.  [~Henry Ward Beecher]

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                           [Photo Source: Google online images]

 (Below is Poem #1463 written by my maternal Cousin Emily Dickinson – about the Hummingbird that is colorful and moves its wings rapidly as it hovers and flies among the bushes with ease as it delivers pollen to the heads of flower blossoms. dht-2011) 

 A Route of Evanescence

With a revolving Wheel —

A Resonance of Emerald —

A Rush of Cochineal —

And every Blossom on the Bush

Adjusts its tumbled Head —

The mail from Tunis, probably,

An easy Morning's Ride —

[Poem # 1463 by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson]