Illustration: Summer

13 Aug

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The best thing about L.A. early summer mornings – the marine layer (fog) has crept up, it’s cool, it’s quiet and hummingbirds flighting through trees.

Hummingbirds were unexpected. I grew up with them, seeing them among Aspen trees and dense pines, but in California? In L.A.? In the city? You may as well tell me Unicorns are kept at the zoo – a hummingbird seems an exceptional and incompatible companion to the urban city.

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  1. bari's avatar
    bari101 August 13, 2009 at 9:19 AM #

    I agree – Hummingbirds are dancing in the wind defying gravity while Unicorns were a symbol of freedom from sin. Great Art works!
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    asmalltowndad August 13, 2009 at 10:08 AM #

    Nice Sketch. Here in southern Indiana hummingbirds are plentiful but still have that magical, almost fairy like charm.

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