Yesterday I was sitting outside getting some sun, I add nuts to the feeder then I sit out there and have my tea.. when I came back inside I saw a friend sitting on my kitchen table - a Bluejay! Of course it was frightened and it started towards my kitchen window - I reached out and grabbed it! I' have 'Bird' to thank for my bird catching skills (hee hee hee _ I grin with pride) I guess because I couldn't believe it myself & it just got calm. Like I said I do this to bird all the time and at first he would shake.. until he knew I meant him no harm, now he likes it.. this Bluejay was so calm for one second started to panic.. then it looked at me, right in the face and calmed down, looking at me.. its beak was open and I wondered if it would bite so I gently rubbed it and it seemed to like this.. I rubbed its head feathers and it leaned in.. I could not stop smiling! I walked up to my office to get my camera.. it just looked at me.
I took some photos... I am so glad my hands were warm, I can tell you it's a strange sensation to have a bluejay claw around one of your finders. It was a powerful yet gentle grasp, big enough so my finger could have been the branch. Wow.
As I spoke gently to it looked and blinked and did not try to escape once.
We walked out to the back deck, and opened my hands and it was gone, I can still see it leave my hands.. as though a perfect scene from a movie.
Not long after I'm sure the same bluejay visited me at the deck feeder it sat there and just looked at me... picked up 3 nuts before deciding and left.
I have this big black canvas waiting... as I finish the 3 cats today I'll be thinking about my next bluejay painting. I want it to be allegorical, only I'll understand it's meaning, I started one of Scruffy in a boat earlier in the summer & decided to not continue. It was full of meaning, meaning that can stay in the past.
After I research bluejays, symbolisms & facts I'll start to sketch. I'd be lying if I said my bluejay encounter didn't feel like a blessing. I'll admit holding it -for one second -sorry, but I thought of John Jame Audubon who I found out watching a documentary- killed and used the dead birds to draw from, which made them so incredibly accurate.
No. I could never do it. There is no need now, so many photos are available- I've taken 100's of bluejay photos!
Letting it go, the dogs were in shock! I think, they thought I was faking it!? I was so calm -the bluejay was so calm.. when it left my hands all their eyes (7 in total) including the cat- bulged!! It was comical- then they looked at me like WTF was that!?
Time to finish King of the Jungle & imagine good things - cause they make me smile!
Have a great day & remember miracles happen ALL the time. Big & small.
Open your heart and watch what happens.
Have Faith
<><
xox
I took some photos... I am so glad my hands were warm, I can tell you it's a strange sensation to have a bluejay claw around one of your finders. It was a powerful yet gentle grasp, big enough so my finger could have been the branch. Wow.
As I spoke gently to it looked and blinked and did not try to escape once.
We walked out to the back deck, and opened my hands and it was gone, I can still see it leave my hands.. as though a perfect scene from a movie.
Not long after I'm sure the same bluejay visited me at the deck feeder it sat there and just looked at me... picked up 3 nuts before deciding and left.
I have this big black canvas waiting... as I finish the 3 cats today I'll be thinking about my next bluejay painting. I want it to be allegorical, only I'll understand it's meaning, I started one of Scruffy in a boat earlier in the summer & decided to not continue. It was full of meaning, meaning that can stay in the past.
After I research bluejays, symbolisms & facts I'll start to sketch. I'd be lying if I said my bluejay encounter didn't feel like a blessing. I'll admit holding it -for one second -sorry, but I thought of John Jame Audubon who I found out watching a documentary- killed and used the dead birds to draw from, which made them so incredibly accurate.
No. I could never do it. There is no need now, so many photos are available- I've taken 100's of bluejay photos!
Letting it go, the dogs were in shock! I think, they thought I was faking it!? I was so calm -the bluejay was so calm.. when it left my hands all their eyes (7 in total) including the cat- bulged!! It was comical- then they looked at me like WTF was that!?
Time to finish King of the Jungle & imagine good things - cause they make me smile!
Have a great day & remember miracles happen ALL the time. Big & small.
Open your heart and watch what happens.
Have Faith
<><
xox
to be continued...
