I took these photos on Saturday. I looked out the window and saw this bird making a meal out of the purple coneflowers that are fading away in the yard outside our bedroom window... my bedroom window... and thought it was an amazing sight, one that Jerry would have loved and most definitely photographed if he could have, so I grabbed my camera. By sheer chance, someone posted a similar photo to a Facebook friend's page yesterday, so I was motivated to do some detective work on Google and discover that the bird was an American goldfinch, and American goldfinches really like the seeds of the echinacea.
Just now I looked out the window and saw a male cardinal at the bird feeder, a goldfinch on the echinacea... and for the first time ever, a tiny hummingbird flitting around near some of the purple petunias that Jerry picked out at the nursery in May. We always wanted to see hummingbirds, even had a hummingbird feeder one year (the shepherd's crook from that failed attempt is still up near the bird feeder and serves as a perch for cardinals and the occasional blue jay), but we never did. And then today, there one was. I wanted to tell Jerry. I wanted him to see it.
It's not fair.
Oh Karen, those pictures are beautiful. I always look for signs, even in places that they really probably don't exist. But, I think that this was a fantastic sign from Jerry meant to bring a smile to you.
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