Birds of Paradise

Two green birds
appear
as they
vanish.
My eyes still look
for the golden goose.

--Superstition Mountains

Unable

to perch on the
hanging Ocotillo
flowers
the bird slid
and slinked away.

--Phoenix Mountains

In the month of humming birds

one guards eggs
in a small nest
Another lies on its side
under a Baha Ruby Fairy Duster bush.

Heterodoxy

sounds so much better than unorthodoxy. Whats with the same new word appearing in any book I open this day? Hetero sounds so much more accomodating.

Dr Who?

I saw a kid feeding herself from Dr Brown's bottle. Then Dr.Scholl came to my mind. It went into my memory stack as another bottle brand until I saw the shoes ad later in the evening.

Enfilade to Diorama

Came across this word in Pork Chop Hill.
The 2b definition of "an axial arrangement of mirrors on opposite sides of a room so as to give an effect of an infinitely long vista" took me back to high school.
In Class IX or so, in a science exhibition my project was Diorama. I was very up about it that I made it from the instructions at the end of a lesson.
I love museums for the miniature models - the modern diorama.

PS: There is a book slide in my life. I have 48 books on history now. War is something I try to stay away from even in reading, but I am trying to convince myself that it will do me good in knowing history.

Favorite color

My friends all have quick answers for this. Me, I dont give any. I think I like light colors. But, not true. Today, I was asked to pick one flower from a bucket full of light pink, light orange and bright pink flowers. I surprised myself when the lady asked , "Now dear! Pick one flower".

PS: No flower in istory has been subject to such horrible horrible behavior. When I got it, it was a long stem. I was trying to hold it with few grocery bags, so it bent/broke into two. It still looked decent. By the time we were home, it took another split. Now thats OK too, still a bright flower. Now what follows is worse, I am trying to look for it and cant find it. I want to know its name. But, it has gone into oblivion. All my fault!