A light drizzle. The one green leaf at the end of a branch on the otherwise dead cherry shakes itself dry and turns back into a hummingbird.
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A light drizzle. The one green leaf at the end of a branch on the otherwise dead cherry shakes itself dry and turns back into a hummingbird.
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I was wrong about humming birds re iridescence, of course, but then that’s not much of a surprise. Was thinking of convergently evolved sunbirds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectariniidae
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Ah, O.K. If I were a more competant naturalist, I would’ve known about sunbirds, but better late than never! Thanks for the link.
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I love the leaf turning out to be a hummingbird – thanks for the surprise!
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THE QUESTION
Philosophical questions begin thus, like a single leaf
at the end of a refoliating branch on a drizzling day
this tardy spring: which the last blackened leaf
holding on to its perch; which the erupting bird
springing this surprise thus coming unexplained
like a sudden eructation from the belly of the earth?
The leaf should have fallen to nothing in the wind,
the hummingbird about its business of humming.
Bird and leaf, life and death, something to nothing:
the teetering green leaf is a bird drying its wings.
So, why should there be something instead of nothing?
—Albert B. Casuga
05-18-11
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glad you’re back.
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Beautiful picture. Love the hummingbird.
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What a lovely poetic vignette ! I will carry it with me all day!
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Thanks for the comments! I wonder if my two-week break will turn out to have been good for the Morning Porch? I need to be more adventuresome like this more often, I think.