Happy Crafter: New Life and Old at Littleton Museum Farm

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

New Life and Old at Littleton Museum Farm

These horses are happy to see anyone with carrots or apples and will come when called. They are the "old" at the museum.

This little darling white lamb was only a few hours old when I snapped the picture and she was wondering where her mother was.

This little baby had a hard time getting up as she was newly born and then when she did get up she was looking for "mama". What fun to watch all the new lambs.

The birds are singing and it's a fun walk around the little lake watching ducks and geese and enjoying the great mornings in Colorado.

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Goldfinches by Mary Oliver, Poet

In the fields
we let them have---
in the fields
we don't want yet---

where thistles rise
out of the mashlands of spring, and spring open---
each bud
a settlement of riches---

a coin of reddish fire---
the finches
wait for midsummer,
for the long days,

for the brass heat,
for the seeds to begin to form in the hardening thistles,
dazzling as the teeth of mice,
but black,

filling the face of every flower.
Then they drop from the sky.
A buttery gold,
they swing on the thistles, they gather

the silvery down, they carry it
in their finch beaks
to the edges of the fields,
to the trees,

as though their minds were on fire
with the flower of one perfect idea---
and there they build their nests
and lay their pale-blue eggs,

every year,
and every year
the hatchlings wake in the swaying branches,
in the silver baskets,

and love the world.
Is it necessary to say any more?
Have you heard them sing in the wind
above the final fields?
Have you every been so happy in your life?