Can you believe it's the last day of August already?
August 31st
Gray
squirrels are busy today
squirreling
black walnuts away
or
maybe hickory nuts burying.
Several
seen this morning scurrying.
Their
checks are full.
Their
tails curl
as
they find a spot
in
my little lot.
They're
providing winter's dinner.
There's
no charge at this diner.
They
are watching me watch them
as
this little rhyme is penned.
Other
garden guests catch my eye
as
I sit under the blue sky.
Each
one of these creatures are busy
in
their various activities.
A
hummingbird sips from the butterfly bush
then
off he goes seemingly in a big rush
when
he hears the cawing blue jays
who's
come to feast on seeds today
from
sunflowers ripening under the sun.
They'll
eat their full before this day is over and done
then
returns tomorrow
for
he does not borrow.
The
yellow finches have already found the stash
of
ripening sunflower seeds out back.
They
are greedily eating lunch
while
on the ground falls a bunch
ensuring
next year more sunflowers will appear
and
perhaps enticing furry rodents near -
that
is, chipmunks and such.
Hopefully
not mice – yuk!
A
hummingbird returns with a zip
where
from the trumpet vine he sips
but
not for long.
Off
he goes...so long.
In
the sedum, a bee
as
busy as can be.
Autumn
Joy Sedum smells like honey.
Through
a miracle, bees make honey.
If
you listen closely you might hear the bees hum
though
today their hum is drowned out by the crickets strum
for
late summer crickets practice day and night.
It's
as if they know autumn is in sight.
Autumn
means the hummingbirds will fly south,
along
with V-shaped formations headed south
for
when you hear honking in the sky
it's
the geese honking their yearly bye bye.
The
hummingbirds,
the
smallest of birds,
travel
alone
on
their way home
while
large geese need each other
to
migrate southward together
as
they soar with the wind
beneath
their flapping wings.
Brown-eyed
susans shine
even
without sunshine
for
gray clouds are moving in.
Leaves
are rustling in the wind.
A
leaf tumbles down
now
laying on the ground.
Though
August 31st, it feels like autumn.
Soon
buzzing bees will no longer hum.
Raindrops
descend.
It's
time to head in.
Inspiration
from
my Eden
has
penned another rhyme
in
today's sunshine.
Tomorrow
there will be more
observations
to store.
*
* * * *
Love the inherent wisdom found
in nature.
Do
take time to watch as creatures nurture.
Nature
does have much to teach us.
Yes,
it even teaches us to trust.
Harmony
is found in one's garden
as
the gardener faithfully tends.
Not
only nature's musicality
but
also compatibility and unity.
Compatibility
and unity is seen
in
the bird kingdom's domain
as
geese flock together
whatever
the weather.
Trees
provide nuts
for
squirrels and chipmunks.
And
various seeds are found
by
hungry birds the world around.
Many
birds seen dine
in
today's sunshine.
Their
lesson: "Do not worry," it only brings trouble.
A
command often repeated in the Bible.
Industrious
is another lesson that is key
as
gardeners observe busy honey bees.
Off
to work they go,
humming
as they go.
Do
take time from your busy day
to
observe how God provides today
for
your garden visitors.
You'll
be pleasingly blessed, for sure.
Do
not worry about your life,
what
you will eat or drink;
or
about your body,
what
you will wear...
Look
at the birds of the air;
they
do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
and
yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are
you not much more valuable than they?
Matthew
6:25-26
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