precious find

Last weekend was predicted to be one of last summerweekends of the year, so we decided to do some work in the garden. As I was digging away between some plants I wanted to shift from the front- to the backgarden, I saw something in the corner of my eye. It was blue and shimmering... Something metal maybe? The weirdest things pop up in the frontgarden, left by the wind or passers-by so I wasn't realy surprised. But waste and rubbish don't do it for me, green stuff is wat we want. So I bended over to pick it up to dispose of it.

Stunned and lost for words I stopped. This is wat I found:



Shimmering and blue, indeed, but not at all metal. It was a lovely tiny feather which once belonged to an Eurasian Jay. They are quite shy, but they leave evidence of their presence all over our garden. Beechnuts, acorns and chesnuts sproute every spring in hudge numbers throughout our garden. But we don't mind, as long as the shed some feathers now and then...