A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade | 
I started reading the tagged book ages ago- after viewing Martin Johnson Hearde‘s hummingbird paintings in the early American Art Gallery at Yale‘s Art museum yesterday,I pulled it out of a stack to begin to read again.
“My” sweet hummingbird, loves my garden‘s bee balm. I have a perfect view of him from my porch. The hummingbird‘s presence is reminding me of the tagged book which I started long ago. Now I feel a pull to return to it. #porchlife #hummingbird
I love this book! My sister introduced me to its splendor. 🪽
“ In this final phase, which remains our own, the best picture of God is the hummingbird.”
“ I soon discovered that almost all the actors I‘d begun to assemble on my little stage…were fanatical about hummingbirds…my attempts to trace the origins of this informal cult of hummingbirds,kept leading back to the Civil War…American during and after the Civil War gradually left behind a static view of existence…they came to see a new dynamism and movement in their lives…This dynamism… found perfect expression in the hummingbird.”
First coffee of the day; first coffee on my porch!
In the 50s today -I am so excited!
so-soThe flow seemed off. I did learn a lot about the connections between historical figures I hadn't realized were connected.
"There is no doubt that greater interest is felt in the suffering of an elephant or a moose than in that of smaller game, though they suffer no more, but we may carry that idea down to our daily walks where we crush out the lives of insects by the thousands, but it can't be helped, and we give ourselves no trouble about it"
Just happen to have this collection of blue books in my family room as well. #septphotochallenge #shadesofblue #septemberphotochallenge
So these just arrived on the doorstep. I want to start reading all of them right now! Clearly I was in a nonfic mood when ordering.
