Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

- Ellen Glasgow

 

 

 

Coming in to the Sage for nectar...............

September 15, 2007

 

 

 

"Poor indeed is the garden in which birds find no homes."

-  Abram L. Urban

 

 

 

 

A hummingbird coming into the garden

August 8, 2007

 

 

A flash of harmless lightning,

A mist of rainbow dyes,

The burnished sunbeams brightening

From flower to flower he flies.

--John Banister Tabb

 

 

Hovering, skimming, buzzing of the wings.....................Beauty in flight!

June 10, 2007

 

"Poor indeed is the garden in which birds find no homes."

---Abram L. Urban

 

 

A Hummer hovering in the Alstromeria

June 10, 2007

 

 

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

 

----Aristotle

 

 

 

Anna's ready to feed at sage blossom

June 2, 2007

 

 

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."

 

-----Brooks Anderson

 

 

Hovering

June 2, 2007

 

 

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

by Hellen Keller

 

Enjoying the nectar

June 2, 2007

 

"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."

----Vincent Van Gogh

 

 

Anna's Hummingbird hanging in midair to feed

June 2, 2007

 

 

The Hummingbird
by Harry Kemp

The sunlight speaks. And it's voice is a bird:

It glitters half-guessed half seen half-heard

Above the flower bed. Over the lawn ...

A flashing dip and it is gone.

And all it lends to the eye is this --

A sunbeam giving the air a kiss.

 

On gossamer wings the bird feeds.....................

June 2, 2007

 

Hummingbird
by Desi Faraci Leavitt

 

Only a glimpse

at shimmering speed.

a presence so grand

stunning indeed.

a sign of great love . . . the hummingbird.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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