Birdsong!

Birdsong!

 

I’ve discovered that gardening is a great way to unwind.  Some of the more mundane tasks around the garden are conducive to being lost in thought.

It was during one of these gardening reveries that I was pleasantly tugged out of my thoughts by a symphony of birdsong (that I managed to capture in the video!) – truly beautiful.  It made me realise just how peaceful it was and just how blessed I was, at that moment, to be in the midst of it all with nothing better to do than to appreciate it!

To a Robin

by William Francis Barnard 

Melodious bird upon the bough,
Tell me the secret of thy glee;
With tears at heart and clouded brow,
I linger, listening to thee.
I pause, bewildered at thy soul,
Which pours itself in strains so high
Upon this world of doom and dole;
Where sorrows live and raptures die.