Sunday, May 25, 2014

MY HOBBY



Watching goldfinches come to the nyjer sock in the late afternoon while sipping a margarita.  Well, that's one of my hobbies.

Can you imagine someone placing a goldfinch in a cage on top of a grave.  Thomas Hardy could.


Thomas Hardy wrote the following poem

Within a churchyard, on a recent grave,
        I saw a little cage
That jailed a goldfinch. All was silence save
        Its hops from stage to stage.

There was inquiry in its wistful eye,
        And once it tried to sing;
Of him or her who placed it there, and why,
        No one knew anything.

 


2 comments:

Out of Sight L said...

That hurts like the dickens, pray tell there's a follow up, when the cage's door suddenly opens and he flies away

cat's momma said...

I agree with what Lorraine said.

And that is a beautiful photo!