Scrapper's Daily Dose Gallery - To Catch A Hummingbird

Paper, extracted flower, jewel, & tag from May Monday Mixer Challenge Kit by Julie Kelley Designs.
Acrylic hummingbird by SKrapper Designs.
Fonts: Little Days Alt

Journaling:
When I was about 10 I managed to catch a hummingbird with my bare hands... I remember vividly following it from tire planter to tire planter in my parent's front yard. The planters were made from recycled tires, and painted a bright shade of robin's egg blue so they are hard to forget! LOL

I must have followed that bird around the front yard for a good 1/2 hour before I managed to cup my hands around it. I was so excited that I had managed to catch something so small, quick, and beautiful! I had either Nora or Blaynethe door to the house so I could show Mom... who was in the bathroom. She didn't want to believe me so Id my hands - just a little - to show her I wasn't lying, and wouldn't you know it - the bird got loose!

It must have taken at least 15 minutes to get it shooed out the door. I didn't see another hummingbird around our house for at least 5 years after that incident! Do you think he spread the word?!?