Ruby Throated Hummingbird, Wild Bee Balm ~ "Spark Of Life" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed This one looks like it's

This one looks like it's introducing itself

Spires of blue salvia stand cool and tall

and this one seems genuinely interested in whoever is looking back

"Grace" captures a sandhill crane in a moment of stillness that holds more power than movement ever could — head turned

Ruby Throated Hummingbird, Wild Bee Balm ~ "Spark Of Life" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed This one looks like it'sA hummingbird is pure energy made small. The Ruby Throated is the only one that nests across the eastern states, and a single bird can visit a thousand blooms in a day, its heart racing, its wings a blur, that throat flaring red and then gone. Painting one is like trying to hold a spark in your hand which is exactly what I was after here. I gave it wild bee balm again, because nothing draws these birds like those shaggy red blossoms, and because I