A New Day – 57 – A Few Blooms
What better way to celebrate spring – again and again – but with some more blooms, inside & out! I showed you Crocuses growing through the snow, showed you them all wrapped up in their beauty, sprinkled with rain drops, & now let me show you one of them smiling to the world! Well done Crocus! Flowers are nature’s poetry.
Here’s one of the two Crocus varieties I have growing.
So Lucky
We should be so lucky
in all our ugliness
that the life we live is blessed with beauty
we needn’t strive for at all.
We should be so lucky
that without a finger lifted
outside, all around us,
It is beautiful.
We should be so lucky
that God ever entrusted us
to lay a finger on such marvels
and they not wither away.
We should be so lucky,
and so we are.
So go, go and SEE
a flower.
-by eLPy
Paphiopedilum ‘Pink Fred’ multifloral, 2 open, 2 to go
Oh, but of course I must add a bird to this post. Not a favorite but I’m documenting what birds I’m getting in my yard as I thought all I got were House Sparrows, so I’m going to share today the Brown-headed Cowbird, male & female. The females of this species are known to lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. Their babies will then be raised by this other bird. I believe they are also known to push the other babies/eggs out of the nest. Aside from that the males bodies are black & iridescent with brown heads. It’s common in birds for the female to be the more drab species not only to disguise them on the nest but it’s the males who have to woo the female so they have to be impressive. (Oh and the little bird is a House Sparrow, very common but also I believe they’re originally non-natives coming from Europe I believe…)
Male on the left, female on the right.
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