May 4th ~ Bird Day
- O birds, your perfect virtues bring,
- Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight,
- Your manners for your heart’s delight,
- Nestle in hedge, or barn, or roof,
- Here weave your chamber weather-proof,
- Forgive our harms, and condescend
- To man, as to a lubber friend,
- And, generous, teach his awkward race
- Courage, and probity, and grace!
{Ralph Waldo Emerson}
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply
because they have perfect faith,
for to have faith is to have wings.
{J. M. Barrie}
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
{William Blake}
~ I Love Your Bright Orange Feet ~
Happier
of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky,
mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty
multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
{William Wordsworth}
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
{Chinese Proverb}
Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings,
you will fly.
{Mary DeMuth}
~ Thanksgiving Day Parade ~
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if
no birds sang there except those that sang best.
{Henry VanDyke}
The bird, the bee, the running children are all the same
to the sliding glass door.
{Demitri Martin}
Which is exactly how I got this shot of this female cardinal. She was still a little loopy.
