A Mezmerizing Weekend....
Posted 08-27-2007 at 10:28 AM by mycoupons
Hi there my gardening friends!
Normally on Mondays I answer gardening questions submitted by members. However, today I want to share with you a wonderful experience I had over the weekend and it does pertain to gardening.
When one thinks of gardening it usually generates thoughts of growing vegetables and herbs. To me at least, gardening is much more than that. Gardening is about life. Whether it is the plant life you've created by planting that seed in the soil or the life that God has created in the form of insects, specifically butterflies or our feathered friends that visit our gardens.
My weekend began late Friday night with a trip to our friend's home in a small town in Maryland near the Chesapeake Bay.
Our friends decided to move away and trade the hustle & bustle of city life and a small home and neighbors only 15 feet away for a 4,000 square foot home on 5 acres in quaint and quiet surroundings about 2 years ago. Though our children have gone back and forth to see each other, we had never made the trek to their new home due to busy life. After being asked the ump-teenth time, we had decided this past weekend to get away and visit our friends.
When we arrived, I could see a world so different from what I had just left a few hours ago, even in the dark of night.
In the morning, I arose to the smell of delicious coffee and a scrumptious big breakfast. After eating, I excused myself and proceeded to then open the sliding glass door onto a wrap-around deck, that surrounded half the house. On this deck my eyes now see a world of a true garden.
There's a small handmade pond that our friends created containing large goldfish and frogs. The yard itself surrounded by woods and in the yard, a vegetable garden, peach trees, fig trees, apple trees, tons of different flowers and birdhouses
In this yard my friend also had a chain attached from her deck that ran a good length down her property. This chain had bird feeders of every kind and suet hanging.
My eyes could not stop taking in the sightings of many different kinds of birds this chain of feeders was attracting. Cowbirds, Chickadees, Gold Finches so yellow it was like seeing spots of gold. There were also Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, woodpeckers and many more that I can't name.
All of a sudden I hear a hummmmmmm and feel a whiz go by me. What was that? Thinking it may have been a gigantic bee, I now notice that my friend, we call her Me-Maw, has not one but several hummingbird feeders. These feeders are spaced about 5 feet away from each other going around the whole length of this wrap-around deck.
This hummmmm I had heard was the amazing ruby-throated hummingbird. Something I have not seen in many, many years. I was ecstatic just to see one of these tiny creatures, but there was not just one hummingbird, Me-maw's yard was full of them! As we sat on the deck surrounded by these feeders, I was mesmerized by the tons of hummingbirds zipping by us. These tiny feathered friends, not only captured my attention but my heart. I didn't care it was 108 degrees outside, I sat there in a chair for several hours captivated by them.
One female hummingbird even hovered in front of my DH and I. She was only a hand-width away from our faces. She hovered in front of us as though she was looking into our eyes and saying "Hi, you're new here". I could do nothing but shed tears of happiness as it was nothing that I had ever experienced before.
At one point Me-maw's hubby Be-Pop gets up out of his chair and runs inside and quickly returns with a pair of binoculars. Handing us the binoculars, he says "Quick, look into the sky through the binoculars at that pair of big birds up there". Ok, "why I ask, what kind of birds are they?" Be-pop tells us they are American Bald eagles. We look through the binoculars and see the most majestic birds ever.
I could go on about my visit, but there is just not enough time or space. All I can say is that after being there and spending time there, I did not want to come back home. I didn't want to leave my hummingbird friends who had captured my heart. I had seen a garden that to me was truly a garden in my definition of it.
We returned home late last night. As we are unpacking the trunk, there underneath our belongings, we find hummingbird feeders that Me-maw put in there with us not knowing. Attached, a note saying "Here's to starting another garden, a garden of feathered friends"!
Thanks Me-Maw and Be-Pop for a weekend that taught and gave me so much. It will live with me forever!
Annie~
Normally on Mondays I answer gardening questions submitted by members. However, today I want to share with you a wonderful experience I had over the weekend and it does pertain to gardening.
When one thinks of gardening it usually generates thoughts of growing vegetables and herbs. To me at least, gardening is much more than that. Gardening is about life. Whether it is the plant life you've created by planting that seed in the soil or the life that God has created in the form of insects, specifically butterflies or our feathered friends that visit our gardens.
My weekend began late Friday night with a trip to our friend's home in a small town in Maryland near the Chesapeake Bay.
Our friends decided to move away and trade the hustle & bustle of city life and a small home and neighbors only 15 feet away for a 4,000 square foot home on 5 acres in quaint and quiet surroundings about 2 years ago. Though our children have gone back and forth to see each other, we had never made the trek to their new home due to busy life. After being asked the ump-teenth time, we had decided this past weekend to get away and visit our friends.
When we arrived, I could see a world so different from what I had just left a few hours ago, even in the dark of night.
In the morning, I arose to the smell of delicious coffee and a scrumptious big breakfast. After eating, I excused myself and proceeded to then open the sliding glass door onto a wrap-around deck, that surrounded half the house. On this deck my eyes now see a world of a true garden.
There's a small handmade pond that our friends created containing large goldfish and frogs. The yard itself surrounded by woods and in the yard, a vegetable garden, peach trees, fig trees, apple trees, tons of different flowers and birdhouses
In this yard my friend also had a chain attached from her deck that ran a good length down her property. This chain had bird feeders of every kind and suet hanging.
My eyes could not stop taking in the sightings of many different kinds of birds this chain of feeders was attracting. Cowbirds, Chickadees, Gold Finches so yellow it was like seeing spots of gold. There were also Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, woodpeckers and many more that I can't name.
All of a sudden I hear a hummmmmmm and feel a whiz go by me. What was that? Thinking it may have been a gigantic bee, I now notice that my friend, we call her Me-Maw, has not one but several hummingbird feeders. These feeders are spaced about 5 feet away from each other going around the whole length of this wrap-around deck.
This hummmmm I had heard was the amazing ruby-throated hummingbird. Something I have not seen in many, many years. I was ecstatic just to see one of these tiny creatures, but there was not just one hummingbird, Me-maw's yard was full of them! As we sat on the deck surrounded by these feeders, I was mesmerized by the tons of hummingbirds zipping by us. These tiny feathered friends, not only captured my attention but my heart. I didn't care it was 108 degrees outside, I sat there in a chair for several hours captivated by them.
One female hummingbird even hovered in front of my DH and I. She was only a hand-width away from our faces. She hovered in front of us as though she was looking into our eyes and saying "Hi, you're new here". I could do nothing but shed tears of happiness as it was nothing that I had ever experienced before.
At one point Me-maw's hubby Be-Pop gets up out of his chair and runs inside and quickly returns with a pair of binoculars. Handing us the binoculars, he says "Quick, look into the sky through the binoculars at that pair of big birds up there". Ok, "why I ask, what kind of birds are they?" Be-pop tells us they are American Bald eagles. We look through the binoculars and see the most majestic birds ever.
I could go on about my visit, but there is just not enough time or space. All I can say is that after being there and spending time there, I did not want to come back home. I didn't want to leave my hummingbird friends who had captured my heart. I had seen a garden that to me was truly a garden in my definition of it.
We returned home late last night. As we are unpacking the trunk, there underneath our belongings, we find hummingbird feeders that Me-maw put in there with us not knowing. Attached, a note saying "Here's to starting another garden, a garden of feathered friends"!
Thanks Me-Maw and Be-Pop for a weekend that taught and gave me so much. It will live with me forever!
Annie~
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