Posted by beardedlady on March 11, 2003, at 8:50:43
Well, a few weeks ago, some sewer pipes exploded at our neighborhood park. The river was filled with 200,000 tons of raw sewage. My husband and I were interviewed about it on the news.
I hadn't been to the park since then--too snowy, too smelly, too muddy. But I went yesterday.
Right in the grove of trees at the park entrance were six to eight Eastern Bluebirds. I have seen blue birds before (we have lots of jays and kingfishers and ingigo buntings, which are really black, but that's another story), but I'd never seen a bluebird until yesterday morning.
They are soooooo blue. It's the brightest, most unnatural blue I have ever seen. And they have these cute little round bellies of white and rust. They are gorgeous.
I told my husband about it, and he went last night to a different part of the park and saw six to eight bluebirds too!
So I went this morning with my camera. Wouldn't you know it, when you come with a camera, you almost never get what you want.
But as I was leaving, I saw them again--in the same grove of trees as yesterday. (I passed that grove on my way in, but it was bare of bird.) What a brilliant sight! It made me happy yesterday, and it made me thrilled today!
Now I know why they call them the bluebirds of happiness.
I hope you all find your bluebirds very soon.
beardy : )>
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