[Arisbe] Humming, All Too Humming

[Jon Awbrey]

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Humming, All Too Humming

Every Spring we hang a clear red plastic globe — shaped and colored vaguely reminiscent
of a large translucent strawberry, with yellow plastic flower-portals on a subtended
green plastic calyx — on a cast-iron scrollwork post in our rose garden, and we fill
it full of sugar water on a twice weekly basis.  Now, the instincts of hummingbirds
are clearly plastic enough that they go right to it and sup the refined sugar nectar
from where it wells up in the faux-flower ports.  But the funniest thing, and it cracks
us up all Summer long into Fall as we peek through the bay window that peeps out over
the roses, is this — there's more sugar water in a single filling of that globe than
the whole gang of hummers in the 'hood could possibly consume in a month, and yet their
instincts are not so plastic that they'll ever leave off blustering and dogfighting and
just plain enjoy the mix.  Moral of the Story?  Ay, there's the rub.

Jon Awbrey
24 August 2006

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