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One for sorrow, two for joy
Oct. 23rd, 2006 07:15 pmI stayed home from work today because I woke up with a head full of goo and a bad cough. When I called in to report I learned that my baking assistant for that day also called in sick, so tomorrow (assuming I get to work tomorrow, which looks likely) the bakery will be in a horrible state. Oh, rapture.
Late in the afternoon I pulled myself together enough to put some clothes on and do some laundry. As I was carrying out my clothes baskets to the car I noticed that there was a huge commotion of birds going on in the backyard tree. Looking up I saw that they were all perching in the tree and eating up its berries, chattering all the while. I would have liked to have stayed and admired the sight longer, but laundry called. Still....
Tall yellow tree
more full of birds
than hackberries
...it made the day better just from existing at all. Peterson's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern/Central North America says the berries are both edible and tasty, but I'm not sure if I really want to compete with the birds on this one.
Late in the afternoon I pulled myself together enough to put some clothes on and do some laundry. As I was carrying out my clothes baskets to the car I noticed that there was a huge commotion of birds going on in the backyard tree. Looking up I saw that they were all perching in the tree and eating up its berries, chattering all the while. I would have liked to have stayed and admired the sight longer, but laundry called. Still....
Tall yellow tree
more full of birds
than hackberries
...it made the day better just from existing at all. Peterson's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern/Central North America says the berries are both edible and tasty, but I'm not sure if I really want to compete with the birds on this one.
