Hummingbird on Fig Tree

© Joy Krauthammer

Hummingbird on Fig Tree

- Joy Krauthammer

This morning of Jan. 17th, it is the 20th anniversary

 of the deadly Northridge Earthquake.

That morning I was in my Northridge home.

Today a terrible wild fire takes 22 homes,
and 1,700 Angeles National Forest community acres,

and the sunrise color is strangely red.

Today is my husband's, z'l, yahrzeit, Jan. 17,  17 Tevet,
but today is 16 Shvat.

  He died 8 years ago.

It is a morning filled with darkness.

I don't want to photograph the morning.
~

I hear a Hummingbird 
and look up to the top of the Mama Fig tree, 

this week of Tu B'Shvat, Birthday of the Trees,

and see the tiny iridescent-colored bird
sitting on a freshly pruned barren branch,
and I smile.

For a fleeting dawn moment 

a second Hummer joins the first.

There is light.

I photograph.

~ ~ ~

Enjoy my devotion of 

FIGs: Photos and Poems 

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/02/manna-from-heaven.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/02/figs.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/02/fig-tree-at-sinai.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/12/fig-tree-gives-again.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2014/01/hummingbird-on-fig-tree.html

http://joys-garden.blogspot.com/2013/02/fig-tree-collages.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/08/haiku-fig-etiquette.html

http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com/2012/08/gds-fig-tree-parshat-ki-tavo-moses.html

http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/626326/jewish/Manna-From-Heaven.htm

© Joy Krauthammer 

© Joy Krauthammer