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August 08, 2006
Tiny Bubbles
Little observations and miracles I've been accumulating over the past week:
1) On Saturday morning I was standing in my backyard next to a flowerbed that once held an ugly vine and two struggling pansy plants. It's now full to bursting with lavender, two climbing roses, a clematis, love-in-a-mist (a bazillion volunteers) and some volunteer feverfew. Also some white daffs, but they're gone now. I was chatting with my mother on the phone. Suddenly, two small things whizzed past my head and I realized they were hummingbirds. One whooshed by less than a foot away. The other stopped and perched for a good minute on one of the lattice rose trellises that replaced the scary vine and chain link fence. I have no idea what my mother was saying at that point. I was consumed with the miracle of a hummingbird perched less than five feet away from me. It was so beautiful. Like a little green jewel. And I've never seen one so still before. Ever. I am so lucky.
2) Two nights ago I went downstairs to feed the cats. Just before I took the first step, a good-sized spider scuttled out to the center of the basement landing, right in the center of a cat triangle. It froze. None of the cats noticed, despite the fact that they were all announcing their extreme hunger. I had to find a pair of shoes to clomp down in and kill it myself. Some predators.
3) Why are the spam comments I receive never for any product I would either want or endorse? Or is that just me?
4) Also on Saturday, some of my Glacier tomatoes finally ripened. I picked them, rinsed them off, cut out the stems and then stuffed one into my mouth whole. Oh. My. God. I'm sure the poor satellite dish installation guy thought I was pleasuring myself in the kitchen based on the sounds I made as I chewed. Is there anything yummier than a fresh tomato?
5) I opened the windows of the house yesterday morning while it was still cool to "air it out." Only, there's a lot of smoke in the air right now from nearby forest fires and, I suspect, some field burning. Though I haven't actually seen any field burns, it's the right time of year. But I have to wonder. In a situation like this, where the air indoors is stale and the air outdoors is smoky, which is worse for an asthmatic?
Posted by sally at August 8, 2006 01:29 PM
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