R wrote - We went on a long walk today and found this wonderful empty bird nest.
Clara - I enlarged it - your beautiful pendant looks just like an egg - and are they what I think they are? - GREEN LEAVES, bursting through with new, fresh life? Yes! Yeahhhh! Almost time to bring out the Maypole and dance...... And you knew your words 'empty nest' would spur me into action. Where are those tiny cute robins that bravely pecked their way out of an egg? Do they miss their mom .... or dod? (why is it that you guys call Mum - Mom, but Dad is still Dad? Why not Dod?)... or did they never really know them? Did their parents have to kick them out of the nest? Did they feel that their birdparents didn't deliver? What about the 'braces' or the undelivered 'car'? Will they be around to be a MOG or a FOB? (Father of the Bride). Will they elope or face the ultimate trauma? Important unanswered questions. And you thought it was just an empty nest.
I'm quite sure this was a happy little empty nest. All the babies grew up to be responsible healthy birds of a feather. Momma and Dodda bird flew south to a villa and decided to stay on.
ReplyDeleteThe empty nest sits safely in LEAFY GREENS waiting for the next family to take up residence. Hmmm...sounds like the beginning of a great grannie circle children's book.