A Hummingbird

Hey, it's a humming bird outside the window.

Yeah, right - if the boss says so.

We turn the corner and there it is. The boss was right. A humming bird seems to be "trapped" or puzzled by the glass jungle. It comes close to the windows in the building, sees the green across the glass walkway, but can't quite figure out how to get across the man-made barrier.

It was nice to spot the humming bird in its seemingly effortless flight, but at the same time it was sad to see it tangled up in the maze of our buildings.

A few months ago I had the pleasure of visiting Augusto Ruschi's nature center, after years of vacationing just a couple of hours away. Hummingbirds fly free all around the park. Augusto Ruschi devoted his life to the study of plants and animals, mainly orchids and hummingbirds.