IN THE GARDEN

234 In The Garden – Saturday, August 22, 2009

As I sat awaiting my ride to the airport, my gaze scanned radar-style across the ‘Enchanted Garden’ meticulously created by my darling spouse over the past few years, a beauty to the beholder’s eye and a haven for all sorts of backyard visitors. The ominous gray sky prophesied nearing showers but failed to discourage this menagerie. From the shepherd’s hook, a burgeoning octagonal feeder served as delicatessen to four finches as their fluttering wings held them secure at their banquet site. Two southern gray squirrels spiraled energetically up the sprawling oak and back down again while a third performed perfect chin-ups on the terra cotta feeder dish below, ultimately bringing him up to the heap of seed for the eating, tail arched over his back as a parasol to fend off the increasing pace of droplets. Turtle doves, two pairs, took mannerly turns in the hanging wooden safflower trough, delicately suspended near the wrought-iron archway framing the path through the delightful enchantment. Unique, the way in which all nature’s creatures seemed to instinctively defer each to the other without offering the first audible offense that another of God’s creation had encroached upon space that should belong solo to him, rather, seemed perfectly satisfied to share-and-share-alike in the abundance that had been provided – somehow thankful that any allowance at all had been made for them. Strange – how these simplest animals in the kingdom seem to have completely mastered a concept that has oddly eluded the human sector – why do you suppose that is?

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