This morning I was awakened by bird chatter. It’s spring after all and the hatchlings are hungry and noisy at 5:30am! Such a welcome sound, much better than the blaring of the alarm or our Pomeranian barking at the side of my head, impatient for his morning walk.
Last Day in the Nest: April 19, 2012
Just days ago, our second and last hummer left its nest. I knew he was ready to leave – he barely fit inside the nest. Still, I shed a few tears. It was such a treat to watch the two hatchings grow as mama bird fed them 4-5 times an hour.
I first discovered the nest by accident while walking by the magnolia tree in the corner of our backyard. Movement caught my attention, right at eye level. As I peered into the tree, I saw two tiny beaks peaking over the edge of a nest. It was no bigger than a ping pong ball and nestled in a fork of the tree branch, strategically covered by a thick cluster of waxy leaves. Read More »
Easter Sunday in SoCal 2009
In a few weeks, I’ll be the guest speaker at a local women’s event. It’s my first formal speaking engagement and I had to provide a head shot and bio for the promotional material, ugh. The days hiding behind the pen and paper – or computer and word processor – are numbered. I’m not sure what the Lord is up to, but I do know that He calls Christ-followers to proclaim the Gospel and to give an answer for the hope that we have.
So, I answered the call to speak and submitted the photo and bio. What came back to me to review gave me pause to smile. One of the ladies in leadership had inserted “Southern born and bred” right smack dab in the first line of my bio. She’s Southern, too, and she knows what it means to be “Southern born and bred.”
I’m reminded of a friend from the Northwest who once said to me, “For every coffee stand in Seattle, there’s a church in Alabama!” I couldn’t have said it better. Recollections begin to flood my mind. Read More »
There is a hummingbird nest in the magnolia tree right outside our family room window. In the nest are two hatchings – we estimate they’re a week or so from Momma Hummer teaching them to fly and then they’ll leave the nest never to return.
Today the two little hummers taught me a lesson. A storm has rolled into town and it is bearing down on us in waves of wind and rain. We can hear thunder in the distance. I was praying for the little hummers as the wind rocked the magnolia tree and huge raindrops pelted their nest. No man-made roller coaster has anything on their nest right now! My husband left the room. He can’t watch anymore.
After the first wave of the storm passed, I ran up to the window to check the nest. And what did I see? Read More »
