O, O, Sweet Canada, Canada, Canada

A white-throated sparrow singing right outside my bedroom window woke me at dawn this morning. What a nice way to wake up, even if it was a bit early! He sang and sang....I think maybe he was saying goodbye. It won't be long before the white throats are all gone from our area....to be replaced by hummers! I checked my notes from last year, and the first hummingbird of the season was spotted in our area on April 20, 2009, so it's time to get out our feeders. Please let me know when you see your first hummer this year.

I found the following article in a newspaper a while ago. I thought it was worth sharing...

In his book Walking Your Blues Away, Thom Hartmann notes that walking provides a break from the routine because the outside environment is always changing. "Looking at the same walls, the same furniture, the same place and people often anchors us to a particular state of mind," Hartmann says. "When we go out for a walk, that state is broken, and new states of mind and emotion provoked by new sounds, sights, smells, and sensations offer access to new ways of knowing and understanding ourselves and our problems or opportunities".

I couldn't have said it better myself!