Usually I post half a dozen or more photographs in the daily BLOG post.  Today I'm celebrating with just one important portrait of a dedicated mother.  Last week I thought I had inadvertently destroyed a little humming bird's nest.  I didn't know it was there and discovered it only after I had sprayed water all over my hanging ivy where she had built her nest.  The bird and her nest, no more than two inches in diameter, are tiny.

She's not giving up.  She was on the nest the next morning after the deluge; and except for forays to feed, she has been sitting on her two eggs all day and night. I used a long lens to get today's picture.  I definitely don't want to scare her away.  I can see her from where I sit typing this note. I'm in love.