Achooooo!

The weather for the first day of fall was gorgeous, so my husband and I sat on my grandma’s old bench in our backyard and watched the hummingbirds. We spotted the first one on the utility wires right above us. We sat very still and eventually she came within inches of where we were sitting to sip nectar from the butterfly bushes and salvias.

As she flitted from flower to flower, she paused above our heads and we could hear the whirring of her teensy wings and feel a breeze in our hair.

You can’t truly appreciate how tiny the birds are until they land on something and sit perfectly still. I’m pretty sure even a polite sneeze would blow a hummer right off its perch.