~ Birds & Blooms ~

 There's an old Chinese proverb that if practiced each day

 Would change the whole world in a wonderful way.

 Its truth is so simple,

 it's easy to do,

 And it works every time & successfully, too.

 For you can't do a kindness without a reward ~

 Not in silver nor gold but in joy from the Lord.

 You can't light a candle to show others the way

 Without feeling the warmth of that bright little ray,

 And you can't pluck a rose all fragrant with dew

 Without part of its fragrance remaining with you.
(Helen Steiner Rice)

 ~ All these pictures are from my garden & bird feeders ... enjoy ~

 ~ A HUGE GIVEAWAY with several ladies participating will be coming on 9/4 ~

                                                   ~ Enjoy your day ~

 When the hummingbird sinks its face into the trumpet vine, into the funnels

of the blossoms and the tongue leaps out and throbs

I am scorched to realize once again how many small, available things are in this world that aren’t  pieces of gold or power------- that nobody owns

or could but even for a hillside of money----- that just float in the world,
or drift over the fields, or into the gardens, and into the tents of the vines,
and now here I am spending my time,

 as the saying goes, watching until the watching turns into feeling, so that I feel I am myself a small bird with a terrible hunger, with a thin beak probing and dipping and a heart that races so fast

 it is only a heart beat ahead of breaking------ and I am the hunger and the assuagement,

 and also I am the leaves and the blossoms, and, like them, I am full of delight, and shaking. (Emily Dickson)