There are many reasons why Edie McClurg is so beloved by her friends; only one of them is that from time to time she sends something to your e-mail box that will brighten, enlighten, stimulate and irrigate your intellectual and sensorial faculties for a moment, a day or a lifetime.
Here are images and words of the decidedly whimsical variety; just exactly what one needs on certain kinds of days.
If you've ever had a house with a real yard and you put up one of the many kinds of sugar-water feeders to attract hummingbirds--because you love studying those little fellows do what appears to be impossible--you're gonna love these pictures. The words are Edie's.
"Woman is Abagail Alfano of Pine, Louisiana--she did not do it for a lark but had studied them daily and one morning put the cup from feeder with water in it and they had gotten used to her standing by the feeder and came over to her hand. She says in touching they are as light as a feather.
"Said if had known her husband would take pictures she would have put on makeup !!
"This is something I have never seen before, or ever even heard of. This lady lives in a Hummingbird fly zone. As they migrated, about 20 of them were in her yard.
"Just for a lark, she took the little red dish and filled it with sugar water and this is the result."
What a treat for we who are endlessly fascinated by those tiny geniuses of flight -- thanks Edie!.
