JOY TO THE WORLD

It is just after six a.m. and the Daisies are all still closed up tightly waiting for the sunshine to wake them up.

Blackbirds are already busy marching and bobbing and fussing through the wet grass looking for breakfast.

Swallows and Flycatchers are darting at high speeds to catch any flying or moving insect…they need breakfast too.

Hummingbirds and Bees followed each other to drain the same flowers… especially little pink bell-shaped flowers that Roz called Abelia bushes.

The Juncos were busy scratching and hopping about under the Daisies and Daylilies looking for their morning meal.

There were orange flowers growing four to five feet tall nearby. The strange thing to me was the stem of the flower grew up through the center of the flower and extended six to eight inches and another flower formed and these were stacked like a shish kabob. I looked it up after taking a couple of pictures to guide me. They are called Lion’s Tail (Leonotis leonurus). What a treat to see. There were many on them on this property.

What came to me that morning was Isaac Watt’s (1674-1748) famous song, Joy To the World:
Joy to the world! The Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King.
Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room,
And heav’n and nature sing!

‘And heaven and nature sing’… that’s the way it was that early morning at Costanoa.

“To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.” Jesus