Happy Days

What a difference time can make! As I look out the window at the soft sunlight just barely brushing the tops of the trees and watch as the leaves tremble and gently waver in the wispy summer breeze, I have trouble believing that the world could ever have been so dark and stormy as it seemed to be a little over a month ago. Funny how that happens, isn't it?

There's a cute little lady bug resting on broad, green leaf just outside, much like you'd see a frog sunbathing on the middle of a lily-pad. I don't know what to think of ladybugs. Sometimes I think that they're such darling, quaint little creatures, but there are others when I only find them irritating and, well, buggy. Speaking of bugs, I saw the cutest little bumblebee buzzing around this morning while I was eating breakfast, and I don't mean little in a general sense. She was so tiny! She couldn't have been but about the size of a nickel, I swear. I could scarce believe my eyes as I watched her. But there she was, alternatively zipping and hovering as she made her rounds about the flower box. I don't believe I've ever noticed how similar a bee's flight is to a helicopter's before...

Isn't nature such a beautiful testimony to the greatness of our Creator? Bees can naturally hover and dart and glide and zip, but it took thousands of years for man to figure out how to replicate those movements in the helicopter, and you have to admit that the chunky metal contraption we've created isn't half as attractive as the black and yellow bumble bee with a perpetual bedhead. Go figure.