The birds have been gobbling food like a big old storm is getting ready to roll in. The house wrens, nuthatches, catbirds, chickadees, gold finches, house finches and titmouse all fighting who will get the top perch. They also chatter as to where the best food is, how to stake out a nich for the little ones and all of the other dominant qualities that we all have as creatures of the earth. Why even the hummingbird and wasp try to secure the famous red spot on the north-east side where the sun is the shiniest. Some days the wasp wins and on other days the hummer does. the morning doves are content with the seeds that fall to the earth, along with the shrew. The little rabbit, the last of the second litter for the year, waits for the seeds to become a rich bed of new, bright green seedlings. Let us not forget the squirrel, always the squirrels, trying desperate attempts to land onto the feeders. They hang this way and that way, sretch to the north, then sretch to the south. You would think that the squirrels have escaped the traveling circus. As humans, we to are seeking to secure our future. We look for food, shelter and clothing on our backs. We become so focused on the material things or absorb with the aches and pains of life we forget how wonderful and diverse life around us truly is. It was once said: 'If we have the courage to lift our eyes above the agony of the moment, we may see a world in which the forces of applied science and the diffusion of knowledge offer to all men and nations a plane of living, a freedom and richness of spiritual, cultural, and economic attainment that can scarcely be imagined at the present moment.' Until the next time-HeWal