SHE is WINTER

A WINTER's TALE by D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Yesterday, the fields were only grey with scattered snow

And now the longest grass-leaves hardly emerge:

Yet her deep footsteps mark the snow, and go

On towards the pines at the hills' white verge.....

I cannot see her, since the mist's white scarf

Obscures the dark wood and the dull orange sky;

But she's waiting, I know, impatient and cold, half

Sobs struggling into her frosty sigh.....

Why does she come so promptly, when she must know

                                        
That she's only the nearer to the inevitable farewell;

The hill is steep, on the snow my steps are slow.....

Why does she come......

                  When she knows.......

                                                                 What I have to tell?

Photographs 2025   D.H. Lawrence was an English novelist, wrote on travel,  plays, painter  amongst other creative endeavors. He died of tuberculosis, on March 30 1930...there were over 60,000 deaths in  France, and over 50,000 in the UK, that same year.

 

BRAVE BIRDS.....

"God is in the small details: in the simplicity of a bird's song, in the serene dawn, or in the first autumn leaf falling..." - Animal wised

                                    "Hold onto dreams......." - Langston Hughes

Stellar Jays, hogging the birdbath...

"More beautiful than the song of birds are their flights. Not every song is of joy, but every flight is of freedom...." -Mario Quintana

      Finch sinking his head into his feathers, being brave against the rain...

(Brave Hum  Hum in the twilight)

"Better than the sound of silence, only the singing of birds....."

-Aerton Guimares

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and SINGS  when the dawn is still dark.." - R. Tagore

Juncos.... buried in the Katura Tree leaves, hiding from  the rain.............

Flicker pauses in a rat- a- tat- tat moment...

"My wish is to stay like this forever...to live peacefully in a corner of nature...." -Claude Monet

     "Look at the birds of the air..." - Matthew 6:26

Flicker eats and eats and eats eats....while a Towhee ( minus its tail) gets away ( and lives to tell the tale!) from the clutches  of  neighbourhood  cats. Towhee hops and flies and swings around the trees, giggling at the cats below...very brave...

"Soar on wings like eagles. Run and not grow weary....." -Isaiah 40:31

"Nature always wears the colour of the spirit...." -Emerson

"Birds were not designed just to be beautiful jewels of the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven." -Suzy Kassem

Stellar Jays gobbling as many 

seeds as they can......they do NOT like sharing...

"Be as the bird perched on a frail branch, she feels bending beneath her. Still she sings all the same, knowing she has wings...." -Victor Hugo

 "I wake up every morning, FREE as a bird.." - Ashley Cole

"Tomorrow the birds will sing.  Be brave. face LIFE.." - Charlie Chaplin

                                 (Another Towhee with its tail intact.......happy and brave.... )

Photographs 2024

HUM HUM HUM.....

"A flash of harmless lightning. A mist of rainbow dyes. The burnished sunbeams brightening from flower to flower he flies..."

                                                                               -John B. Tabb

"Neither the hummingbird nor the flower wonder how beautiful it is...." - unknown

"Like the hummingbird sipping nectar from every flower, I fly joyfully thru my days, seeing beauty in everything..." - Amethyst Wyldfyre

"Hummingbird teaches us to hover in the moment, to appreciate its sweetness..." -Constance Barrett Sohodski

"The hummingbird is a symbol for accomplishing that which seems impossible. It will teach you how to find the miracle of joyful living from your own life...." -Ted Andrews

"Hummingbirds defend territories of many flowers and remember which flowers they have recently been to...." -Susan Healy

"Hummingbird is the spirit of pure joy! The messenger of beauty and wonder...the sweet nectar of life.." -Unknown

"The hummingbird competes with the stillness of the air..." 

                                                                                                                          -Chogyam Trungpa

"Hummingbirds are so light and fast that they can compete with the air.." Unknown

Photographs 2024