Standing Ovation

Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. - Thoreau

butterflies flirted

wood peckers fired machine guns

feathery ferns cheered

Author's Note

"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

I love the line about woodpeckers. They can make quite the racket when pecking

[Pete]

i hear them around here where i live. they are so cool and fast with their rat-a-tat-tat. thanks pb.

[Poetic Beauty]

We have some here where I live and often we will find them drinking out of the hummingbird feeders we have up

[John the Baptist]

Woodpeckers fired machine guns? Must have been Ukraine or Gaza. Maybe Texas.

[Pete]

I hear them here where I live. Their rat-a-tat-tat on trees. very fast, rapid-fire pecking.

[Green]

So nice to think of all of nature rooting for us like this. And if you'll let it, it can bring so much joy into your life. I have a running dialogue with the bee that frequents my backyard, I like to think we're friends.

[Pete]

couldn't agree more. i adore nature in all its delicate splendor. your bee brings bold blessings. thanks for the great share.