Hummingbirds 2007

 

 

Ode to a Hummingbird

Light shot through diaphanous wing
Fifty beats per second

Its long beak dipped in the flower of
Life's sweet nectar

Too fleet to see without an informative eye
A blur in the green gasp of forest needles
Yet when spied, delight

The happenstance of cat's catching
Fate's vivid colors dancing

In the rainbow shade
'Twixt day and night.
----Laurence Overmire

 

 

Anna's Hummingbird feeding at Sage blossom

October 2, 2007

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

Lens: Canon EF75-300mm 4-5.6 IS

 

Hummingbird

 

A flash of harmless lightning,

A mist of rainbow dyes,

The burnished sunbeams brightening

From flower to flower he flies.

----John Banister Tabb,

 

 

"Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us ­ thereby changing the very idea of reality."

---Susan Sontag

 

 

Hummingbird at Agapanthus

August 25, 2007

 

 

"Few forms of life are so engaging as birds."

- Ellen Glasgow

 

 

Anna's Hummingbird coming to a Agapanthus

August 15, 2007

 

 

"Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature."

----Penelope Hobhouse

 

 

Coming in for a feed, hummer to an Agapanthus

August 14, 2007

 

 

"Poor indeed is the garden in which birds find no homes."
-  Abram L. Urban

 

 

Feeding from an Agapanthus

August 14, 2007

Photo by BT

 

"If you would be happy all your life--plant a garden."

----Chinese Proverb

 

 

 

Hummingbird eating from Alstromeria

August 7, 2007

 

 

"The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies."

---Gertrude Jekyll

 

 

Anna's Hummingbird

June 24, 2007

 

 

"A garden always gives back more than it receives."

----Mara Beamish

 

 

 

 

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