Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Our terrace garden is mostly made up of varieties of salvias and fuchsias.

 Terra cotta pots are placed out and fully planted mostly for New England's only hummingbird . . . the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, who visits often during the spring and summer months. It is a joy each year to observe breeding hummingbirds in our gardens. As the first day of winter approaches, I imagine the immature male and female below are now settled somewhere in Central America.

WISHING ALL THE HAPPIEST OF HOLIDAYS!

PEACE ON EARTH

GOOD WILL TOWARDS ALL LIFE

Jeweled Sequences Qualities of Light

These little jewels and the glimmering dancing background are in total contrast to the bleak and howling night, as the moon rises over Walnut Hill casting shadows over a snow-white landscape. There is one shattered charcoal shadow that tears at my heart, for it is my beloved Black Cherry torn apart by raging winds. Though now dormant, I know it must be weeping deep within the dark folds of earth.