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A birthday gift for both of us
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding. the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings. –Rumi We celebrated my friend Karin’s birthday last Friday by getting...
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Rarely this happy to be wrong
My heart was heavy when I positioned the stepladder beside the fuchsia plant in which Walela had built her nest. Why had one of the hatchlings died, I fretted, and why hadn’t the mama hummingbird...
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No ordinary eggs, these
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being...
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Finding my voice, and taking wing
In you is all of Heaven Every leaf that falls is given life, in you Each bird that ever sang… will sing again, in you. –A Course in Miracles I’m still reveling in my experiences last week with the...
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Present moment, wonderful moment
Breathing in, there is only this moment… On Friday, Walela’s breathing was effortful… Breathing out is a wonderful moment. The first egg in her second clutch. If we are not fully ourselves, Two days...
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Still, life
Still images can be moving and moving images can be still. –Chien-Chi Chang Not long after Walela laid an egg in her remodeled nest, her incubation periods became increasingly erratic. I observed her...
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Ringing in the New Year, 2016
Another turn of the calendar page, and here we are, standing at the threshold of 2016. We had a quiet celebration, here at Chez Shore. No fireworks, no champagne flutes at midnight…we just reveled in...
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Faith, trust, and a little pixie dust
So much has changed since we last talked about Aryana’s hummingbird hatchlings on this blog. In brief: Within the span of 24 days, Wendy and Peter broke free of their eggshells, sprouted feathers and...
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Rain and Beau: Baby hummingbirds, about to fledge
Until you spread your wings, You’ll have no idea how far you can fly. (Unknown) Aryana, a non-migrating Allen’s hummingbird, built her nest in the fuchsia that grows along my front walkway, way back...
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Rain and Beau take to the skies
Treat yourself, why don’t you, to our hummingbird hatchlings’ pre-fledge antics. Watch as Rain helicopters above the nest, hovers mid-flight, and manages a graceful landing on a twig beside the nest....
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