Garden Blessings

This afternoon as I drove around my yard searching for gardening tools, I happened to catch what I thought was a really big dragonfly out of the corner of my eye. We have some pretty big dragonflies around here but this had a bit too much substance.

It was a hummingbird - and an absolute garden blessing for my prairie garden.

Not only does it mean that good things are happening here and that the pond was a positive addition to the yard - but that there would probably be more hummingbirds now and other birds we haven't seen here as well.

I love that I have created this oasis here; that somewhere out there in the bird network is a message that if you travel in this direction you'll find flowers and food and a bath as well.

So - of course - the work I'd planned to do was abandonded and replaced with picture taking. The whole family came out and she was so exciting to watch, we all spent quite a bit of time following her from one flower to the next and back again to the first. We snapped hundreds of photos trying to capture her magic for just a millisecond - but as usually happens, the first photos were the best.

sharing my blessings...