Tonight there was little wind, the moon coming up was almost full, and no bugs. I sat on the front porch swing, as the sun went down. Truffle taking a lick at my bare toes.
I heard a humming and looked up to see a big bumblebee hovering over my hanging flowers. No wait...it was a hummingbird! Awww!
It went from petal to petal drinking up the nectar. It was near dark, and I could barely see it flittering about.
Very quietly I stood up from the swing, crept up on the flower it was busy tending to, and ever so gently cupped my hands around him without even a startle. I made a wish, and let him go faster than I had caught him. I barely felt his wings against my hands nor did he even have a chance to get a panic in his hum before I opened my hands and he was flying away, and only to go on to the next pot of flowers.
That is the second time I have caught a hummingbird with my hands, the first one was let go as quickly as well, but he was caught up in a screen, and so I set him free very carefully.
It is late but the house still smells of warm pecan pie, and so I am off to slice a piece and then go to bed!
Fairy dreams!
About Me
- Prairie Moon Farm
- Warm greetings! I am a homesteader in Missouri, delighting in all things simple and earthy and good. I wear prairie skirts and go barefoot as often as I can. I adore my family, my darling Wee Babes, my garden, my dairy goats and numerous other farm critters, and my one pair of paddock boots (yes, those are my feet in the photo above *giggle*). I work with moon energy, metaphysical healing, native american shamanism, meditation, and herbal healing.
Come and take a walk with me...
..through the wooded path, past the creek to the clearing on the hill ......where the ponies buck and play, and fairies frolick in their manes. But, we must beware the figglesnitches! If you do not know what the figglesnitches are...well then, you must stay!
