12:06 PM
February 2, 08
Lots to process today.
It is raining.
It has been raining the last three Sundays
in what the state of Ca was considering a time
of draught and then instituting water cutbacks.
The water cutbacks were really making it
hard on Joe and the other local farmers.
I have not been able to reach Joe today.
I did not go down to the FM.
It has been pouring rain all morning.
I went out to make sure the earth worms were covered.
They were drowning out when I checked yesterday.
All the worm survivors were collecting near the top
climbing out of the water.
I dumped some of the water out yesterday
and did that again today.
I covered the bin today.
Then, I went to check on the hummingbird nest
that my neighbor Nuni pointed out in our orange tree.
I took some photos of the eggs the other day.
The mother was hovering nearby.
She was glad to get a break for sitting on the eggs.
Today, in the rain, I figured she would be there
protecting the next from the cold and water.
What possesses a mother to know instinctively
to protect the offspirng?
Here she was sitting in the cold and rain,
water running off her feathers
droplets collecting on the orange leaves.
I imagine it is Mother's Love that
inspires such action, primal unthinking
Mother's Love.