Those nonpricey Taylor Ladies......

My FB friend, food blogger, botanical research scholar, nutritionist, trekker, photographer, and birder, Sangeeta Khanna, has a green thumb, and the good fortune to live in Delhi amidst lots of trees and a garden where she grows her own stuff.

In keeping with her environment, she also keeps birdbaths and water for creatures who visit. The birds have so much confidence in her that an injured Myna once actually recuperated at her house, in a special basket, after being treated and cared for by her.

This time, it was a female Taylor bird, that called out to her in a full throated song, where upon, the following photos happened.

The poems were written separately in response to the 2 photos.

Putting them together here, side by side.  I think Mrs Taylor and Mrs Khanna might approve ......

We nonpricey Taylor ladies, like to celebrate when we get some free time from planning nests, sipping some good water from birdbaths, and pecking at seeds, and tree trunks. And much like the songs you sing on important days, we too celebrate our freedom... Not by chirping from behind an enclosure, and saying things which no one hears, but by bursting forth in full throated music, well situated on a magnificent branch in the greens, calling out to our friend the Music Lady, who we see time and again, filling water in the birdbaths, sorting things in her garden, and sometimes, playing doctor to our mynah friend. And she glances at us from the window, puts down her teacup, and emerges outside amidst the dew and the morning sun, as we reach the "Jai Ho" of our song ....

It's really all about balance. I don't see too much of it around me, as I see blatant greys and browns killing and destroying the greens; corrosive minds throwing like minded liquids on faces that question them; parents who think money and possessions replaces time; and greedy power types who think rules change for them. These guys once had a tailbone and then they simply lost it all. Thank God, mine enables me to keep my balance in the most difficult situations, as I turn my back to the camera to attend to my little one practicing below...