It's 28 degrees this morning, but the sky is almost clear--just enough pink clouds to be lovely--and there's no wind. The hummingbird appeared at the earliest time I've recorded so far--7:08.
Laura Erickson Duluth, MN Producer, "For the Birds" radio program <http://www.lauraerickson.com/> There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. --Rachel Carson

