The Hummingbird

about a month ago i went to my window and was surprised to see a hummingbird at my flowers...i go a little bit flower "postal" in the summers because i love them so much. ;) i rarely get to see hummingbirds, though, and so this day was very, very special. i got to watch the little bird for about 15 minutes...darting from flower to flower, it's wings beating so quickly that they almost looked transparent. it was spectaculor!

well, in a tiny blurt i asked god if i could see one up close someday...just to catch a glimpse of their settled little bodies.

and then the thought left my mind...

until today!!!

my office is right across the hall from the adorable first graders, and one of them had a special 'show and tell'...a hummingbird! the little boy had found it outside their house...wounded from hitting a window. so he and his parents had it in a little cage while they nursed it back to health. he brought it to school today because it had just started darting around in the cage. together, they were going to release it.

so, i got to see it resting in the bottom of it's container...only a thin barrier of plastic between us. oh my!...it's little tummy jumping with it's tiny little breaths. it's delicate narrow beak. it was even more spectacular than i'd imagined.

and then i remembered that i had asked god for that...:)

sweet!...and special!

so for the hummingbird lovers, here's someone's video of one. they are amazing!