Click on photos to enlarge and read captions. I need some help in identifying two of these birds.
Morning Birdsong
Each consecutive melody, sung with a full-throated enthusiasm and answered in kind achieves a second purpose that I’m sure is one unintended by nature. Encapsulated in deep sleep as I am, only they are effectual in actually arousing me, for they form a chorus of alarm clocks that cannot be turned off.
I smooth the matted mane of Matteo, my love who sleeps through it all, and stumble to the kitchen to put on the coffee. As I drink my first cup, the male woodpecker joins his mate in the tallest palm tree outside the kitchen window. A second later, Matteo joins me as well and all is right in the world. He croons a soft aria into my ear and I answer in perfect harmony.
Word prompts for today are consecutive, encapsulate, effectual, matteo and melody
effectual is producing the intended result; entirely adequate.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 