Grateful Because

I was up at 6:00 this morning. It hadn’t been my intention even though I had planned to wake up a bit earlier, but alas.

After a few minutes I had showered and a pot of fresh coffee awaited me.

The vice of a cigarette brought me outside on the porch in the morning sunshine. I was enjoying these three, the coffee, the cigarette, the sunshine, when I became aware of the singing of so many birds.

In Amsterdam, where I grew up, I was used to hearing birds year round but here, way up north, birds go away for the winter. I missed their morning sounds for a long time.

Every year it is a joy, a sensation, a blessing, to see and hear the birds backs.

Thank You for the birds and their sounds and songs.

* The beautiful photo of birds on a wire was taken by lumkness.