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We went to the top of a mountain…up a mountain road we wound our way because we know it’s the perfect place to watch the sun set on the day. We never tire of watching a sunset…for each one is unique The sky is ever-changing as the sun and clouds play hide-and-seek. There is something soothing…mesmerizing…watching another day go to bed…as colors stretch across the sky in shades of yellow, orange and red. I guess you could say, as far as sunsets, Deborah and I are fans…but this evening as we stood atop the mountain the sun and clouds had other plans. This evening’s sun was bashful…she seemed a lttle shy…choosing to hide behind the clouds as they spread across the sky. But we were not upset…on a mountain top…surrounded by the trees.. for even a sunset with no sun…is a beautiful sight to see. With no sunset to watch…our eyes found so many other sights to see… For instance…a group of little birds as they landed in a nearby tree. They were a little distance away but we noticed how the tree they landed in shook… so I ran to the car, got our binoculars…so we could get a closer look There on the mountaintop…unable to watch the sunset we adore… we saw, instead, a group of birds we had never seen before. A google search led us to cedar waxwings…and I admit we were both stunned because the cedar waxwing has the same colors of our bashful setting sun. The little orange atop its head looked kind of like a veil… The red showed up on the tip of its wings…they yellow on its tail. To top it off…we were serenaded by this previously, to us, unseen bird with one of the softest sweetest birdsongs we have ever heard. Yes, we came to the mountain to watch a sunset… but when that sunset was obscured…. we were blessed… oh how we were blessed to find our sunset in a bird.
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