Struck by the Nature...

"there's a special

providence in the fall of a sparrow"

Or indeed - in the feeding of them...

I did little I had planned this weekend. Somehow I became totally immersed in watching the very ripe persimmons disappear from my tree.

It began with three Waxwings; the first beyond help, the second apparently fine, and the third - just needing safe haven for an hour or so - after all had collided with my neighbor's bay window.

Once back in the air, the third joined other Waxwings in the stripping of the persimmon tree. In watching, I began to notice all the different species that had come to feast. The Robins are back, Woodpeckers, Yellow Throats, assorted Wrens, Sparrows & Finches. Cedar Waxwings come only in winter - lucky me - to encounter up close a seasonal visitor.

"If it be now,

'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now;

if it be not now, yet it will come: the

readiness is all:"

Hamlet V:II

Oh.. what wisdom might come if I had naught to care but to watch Nature...