Recycling

While trimming the Blue Spruce the other day, I discovered this old bird nest.

Its construction was ingenious, with thicker twigs on the lower level, and a layer of slender twigs inter-woven with scraps of candy wrappers and other trash in the middle (to stop wind?); finally a layer of fine grass on the top. The bird that made this was hip to recycling,  making beauty from dross.

I am humbled by the artistic sense of these ‘lesser’ creatures.