Current mood:

curious

More on Nature
Finches

Hmm, I’ve never seen a bird pant before…it must be hot. Yes you read that right, a little Yellow Finch was just sitting on the porch-rail outside my window, beak open, tiny chest convulsing, panting. He stayed for a good five minutes, as I tried to tell him to stop being foolish sitting in the sun like that, and go drink something. Not that I have the power to talk to birds, or that I was anything more than a nuisance to him; disturbing his resting place, by grunting in human-speak. But hey, I do what I can. Poor little guy, I can’t imagine what it’s like to be covered in feathers when it’s 96 degree’s and humid outside. Not, mind you, that it’s any cooler in here.

Dragonflies

I think I mentioned before that I’ve had regular visits from a large Dragonfly on the patio screen near my desk; well…oddly he, or she, has not been the only one I’ve seen this summer. It was, in years past, fairly rare to see Dragonflies other than when near a slow moving body of water; this year, however it seems they are everywhere. There was one just outside our door this morning, dangling itself from the ceiling in the breezeway, in fact there has been one or more of them hovering about our home for many weeks now. It’s not an every day occurrence to see them, but at least an every other day thing. I know logically that this has been a very good year for bugs like mosquitoes (hot and humid etc) and it follows with lots of food around, there would be lots of Dragonflies, but the tree-hugging hippy side of me can’t help but wonder what they mean. (I have no delusions that I am so important to the Universe it is conspiring to tell me something, but I thought I’d look up Dragonflies as omens just in case.)

Dragonflies symbolize, dreams, enlightenment, change, illusion, and the realization of truth.

“Dude! That is so cool.”

They are very good omens, and good luck charms!

“I think I have a new obsession.”

And speaking of Omens, there is currently a HUGE bumble bee that keeps flying itself at the screen. I am allergic to bees so I’m more than a little nervous, but according to what I just read “Bees are bearers of goodwill. A symbol of virginity.”

“Virginity? Hmm…No wonder he can’t get in.”

What I find most remarkable about all of this, is that I live in a cosmopolitan if not metropolitan area. We may be surrounded by farms, but we are in fact a thriving city. Nature is a funny thing.

And in other news…

Another fool workout last night. There have been a couple since the last time I whined about being sore in which I didn’t actually overdo it…Everything was warm yesterday, it felt really good to tax my muscles, and kind of good to sweat from effort, rather than just the act of breathing.