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Well, if you've read this far, my hat is off to you. I don't have much to offer... Just a little hummingbird and a couple of blurry crows...

And even at that, you'll have to squint to see the hummingbird hovering over the right-hand side of the red dish feeder. This is hardly chest-pumping action. But then again, there is the Zen of the thing... Peace.

You know, it's a strange world that we live in. Tune in to the SyFy channel any Saturday at 2PM (prime time for our young people) and you won't have to wait long to see a character decapitated, dismembered, disemboweled, skewered, or otherwise gruesomely killed. And the weirdness doesn't stop there. Our politicians are wildly corrupt and inept... Our long-term national economy looks cataclysmic... We've dumped over a trillion dollars into the "stimulus" and still the jobless rate hovers just under 10%. And the madness just goes on and on...

Truth be told, most people who read this are not avid birders. Could it be that momentary bits of sanity like the hummingbird above are the only things that keep us sane? In 1861 Emily Dickinson wrote the following...

"Hope" is the thing with feathers--
That perches in the soul--
And sings the tune without the words--
And never stops--at all--

And sweetest--in the Gale--is heard--
And sore must be the storm--
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm--

I've heard it in the chillest land--
And on the strangest Sea--
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb--Of Me.

See you by those Prozac-free feeders,

CapeCodAlan

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