Saturday, December 01, 2007
What do flowers mean to me?
There is something about flowers that catches my attention much more than leaves, stems, stalks, foliage, etc. They perform a function which is both vital and aesthetic. Bees, butterflies and sometimes visit them and interact with them in ways both delicate and sensitive. I saw a hummingbird visit a flower once, it wings flapping at I don't know how many thousand times per minute and it accurately and as though immobile but floating on air, targeted the flower and the nectar it was sipping. The flower could have collapsed under its weight if the hummingbird had alighted on it but they seemed a perfect combination, the flower and the hummingbird. One, giving food and sustenance and the other allowing pollination to occur.
oahu, oak, oakland, oasis, oat, oath, ob-gyn, oberon, obese, object, objective, obligation, obscene, obscure, observance, observation, observatory, obsession, obsolete, obstetrics, obstruction, oc, occasion, occidental, occult, occupancy, occupation, occurrence, ocean, oceania, oceanography, october, odd, ode, odessa, odor, odyssey, off-broadway, offbeat, offense, offensive, office, officer , official, offset, offshore, ogre
That was the first time I ever saw a hummingbird. I thought they existed only as pictures on a book or visible only to experienced birdwatchers, but there it was, early in the morning, courting the flower and kissing it, as it were. I watched transfixed as though movement on my part would destroy a magical moment which they shared and I was privileged to have witnessed. That moment lasted less than I anticipated but the memory lives on and serves to remind me that there are things that seem to be of no consequence but happen nevertheles, without my intervention, without my permission, without me even needing to be being there.
Our favorites are: Ching's World, Green Tea, Dumaguete, Cebu City, Cagayan de Oro City, Papoy, Moira Trinity Cagayan de Oro, Dumaguete, Cebu are all in the Philippines in the world of Ching.
oahu, oak, oakland, oasis, oat, oath, ob-gyn, oberon, obese, object, objective, obligation, obscene, obscure, observance, observation, observatory, obsession, obsolete, obstetrics, obstruction, oc, occasion, occidental, occult, occupancy, occupation, occurrence, ocean, oceania, oceanography, october, odd, ode, odessa, odor, odyssey, off-broadway, offbeat, offense, offensive, office, officer , official, offset, offshore, ogre
That was the first time I ever saw a hummingbird. I thought they existed only as pictures on a book or visible only to experienced birdwatchers, but there it was, early in the morning, courting the flower and kissing it, as it were. I watched transfixed as though movement on my part would destroy a magical moment which they shared and I was privileged to have witnessed. That moment lasted less than I anticipated but the memory lives on and serves to remind me that there are things that seem to be of no consequence but happen nevertheles, without my intervention, without my permission, without me even needing to be being there.
Our favorites are: Ching's World, Green Tea, Dumaguete, Cebu City, Cagayan de Oro City, Papoy, Moira Trinity Cagayan de Oro, Dumaguete, Cebu are all in the Philippines in the world of Ching.
Labels: flowers, hummingbird, kissing, magical, nectar
