Jul
23
2011
The Carolina wren hopped on the fence and sang so sweetly. This was unusual behavior by this bird but there was a nest they planted ten feet away in a wandering Jew plant hanging from the middle of the garage. Now I knew what they sounded like. More than once we saw the birds fly from the nest. Several times we saw one with a worm in his/her mouth. I could not hear any babies. It appeared as two birds were flying back and forth from the nest. The nest was facing the door and my wife was careful not to disturb the birds when she watered the plant. Now I know what they sound like. It seems as if every year some bird nests nearby our front door.
Every fall it gets taken in and when the warm weather comes again it goes outside. During the months it is inside it just withers, barely hangs on. During the summer when it is hung outside from the garage door it perks up, the leaves turn a deep purple and it becomes full and healthy again. One lesson you can learn from all that is that sometimes all we can do is to get through a season until the conditions improve then you will thrive again just like that wandering jew plant. And this happens to you on a cyclical basis although not with the precise regularity of the plant.