To our mockingbird
singing your heart out all night
thank you for your song
Cori MacNaughton
When Marek and I arrived home tonight our mockingbird was singing away, as he had been before we left, and sporadically throughout the day.
I have learned that the mockingbirds that sing all night are usually the unattached, unmated males, which at last in part explains their tenacity and determination, not to mention their one-upmanship in learning as many new songs as they can. This is how they prove themselves worthy to the females as potential mates.
Here is a photo of our mountain azalea again, this time in full, glorious bloom, as opposed to the last photos I posted with many of the buds still unopened. It does after all have a lovely light scent; it won't be perfuming any neighborhoods, as did our male papaya tree in Florida, but it has a lovely scent all the same.
I'll definitely be propagating this one, through cuttings and transplanting a few of the young volunteers, and saving seed to do more down the road. This is definitely one of the lovelier of our native flowering bushes, and although it is in no way endangered, I would love to see it booming along our highways, rather than the invasive ailanthus and Pawlonias.
And I would love to hear your take in the comments.
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This photo of our mountain azalea I took a few days ago using my Samsung Note 8 smart phone.
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