'HUMMINGBIRDS'2013

'HUMMINGBIRDS'

Hummingbirds are truly the most amazing tiny jewels of the 
sky! I got into hummingbirds about oh 7 to 8 years ago. And I've been in loved with them ever since. The thing about this tiny jewels of the sky; Well that's what I call them. Besides being so beautiful in the colors that they come in. they are wonderful in your garden. They help in ways you might not think about. One is the Adult hummingbirds are great at gobbling up lots and lots of aphids, gnats, tiny flies & other kinda bugs that will sometimes attack you favorite plants. I have found that since I have had my hummers now for about 8-years how, I haven't had any more problems with my plants having bug problems. But that's just one factor of a plus of hummers.

 Allans Hummingbird 

The Lucifer Hummingbird

 Wine Throat Hummingbird 

What I love most about the hummingbird is their sheer joy they have given me. Over the years I have have planted this flower called Bee Balm and I had know Idea  that the hummers   liked them until one day I noticed that a beautiful tiny hummingbird would come and visit my garden every summer. I decided to add a few more different flowers that I knew that the tiny knew friend would like. I add Some more Red Bee Balm, Foxgloves,Fuchsia's, Sage(comes in lots of different colors - red, orange, & yellow are the best),Morning Glory's. I also added a feeder too.. I discover that my hummer was either a Anna's Hummer or an Ruby - Throat hummer. I haven't been able to figure out which one it is but it really doesn't matter to me because I have so much joy from the beautiful tiny bird. To give you an little idea about each of the types of the hummers I thought I would give you a little description of both; The Ruby-Throat hummingbird is found mostly in the east of the Great Plains, many of this tiny jewels will migrate nonstop across the Gulf of Mexico  - six hundred miles over open ocean water flying low over the tops of waves. to reach the Northern parts on California and Washington. But I have discovered over the years that both the Anna's & Ruby - Throat hummingbirds are starting to stay, at their winter homes these last oh, 5 to 6 years. The Ruby Throat hummers in additions to the flowers and feeders (which I will cover more in another blog about feeders and the food you can make at home that is much more healthy for your hummers) are great on eating insects to protect your flowers and some plants too. In addition to feeding on insects and the floral nectar, the ruby-throat  often feeds on the tree sap provided by the drilling of sapsuckers in many parts of Northern California & Washington. This tiny jewels are especially attracted to the blooms of the trumpet creeper - which seems to be primarily adapted to pollination by the hummingbird. The Ruby - throat hummingbirds are also very attracted to the Red Bee balm, Columbine and  Red Saliva.
Now both the Males and Females of the Red throat humming bird have a iridescent green backs. And their undersides are grayish white, with dusky green sides and flanks. They are a close relation to the Black - chin hummers who are in the westerly states. The males are a bit different by far...
When seen in the right light or not, but usually in the summer days the male has a fiery red gorge's that are quite beautiful.. I've have also found that the top of their heads have the same red iridescent flare when they move in the light. They are quite the talkative little birds too. 
Both can  produce this amazing humming sound with their wings & they seem to have a chirping sound that is quite loud at times. The Anna's Hummingbird is so much like my Rosy hummer too. The way he looks and the talkative part of the bird too. 
Anna's Hummingird  has the iridescent feathers but its on his head and his throat & basically all around his head. and you can see his even when its not a sunny day. Also what makes me thing of Rosy with this type of hummer is - the way that they hovering in midair air - the way they fly up really high  and then come down dive-bombing into a tree that is very close by my graden or another hummer. Doing these amazing flying dancing you could call it in the air. and then dive bomb at amazing speeds. 

Well, I will continue blog on my love for my Hummingbirds - And my Rosy - My wild little hummingbird...
Wendy 

~ELVHENAN LANGUAGE IN ANCIENT TIMES~2013

'ELVHENAN LANGUAGE IN ANCIENT TIMES'

Before time, how did elves dominant the race on earth? 
They lived life as Kings and Queens, their magic & immortally was the norm. In the time of the elves was great glory of the dominant race on earth along with the faeries. They were very carefree by nature. Elves and their tiny friends - the faeries loved to dance and play stringed instruments. Music was a great part of their lives, as well as dance. 

Most lived in the thick dark forests where know one could find them. They could live freely out in the open with music, singing, dancing and lovely one another. There was a lot of sex and chasing about of both sexes. This was the way of the middle class elves & all other elves except,  the Kings & Queens Elves who were very posed about their actions & appearance's.Their children were expected to marry whom they choose. Some of the elves would live underground in the spring. They aren't bad but sometimes their pranks have been fatal to humans but never intentionally. Elves apparently came in several distinct varieties - though they are a rather mournful lot, one breed of elves was an invisible  kitchen helpers for good servants, the others the bringers of illness and misery. They can be of both sexes of sexless...

Yet the old tradition portray them as very different creatures, among the Norse, Teutonic and and Scandinavian peoples, Elves are tall, extremely beautiful and very powerful. 

A person may be said to have 'elfin beauty', when they posses fine bones, light and silken hair and large eyes. A Anglo - Saxon, there is a adjective - aelfsciene, that means 'as pretty as and elf.'
Elfin fact - The importance of elves in earlier western culture can be inferred from the number of words & phrases of that have survived into recent times. 

Here are are a few examples - of Early Elfin words & phrases - A changeling - is a elf cup is a stone with a hollow in it filled with morning dew, elf fir is another name for the will - o - the wisp, elf - locks maybe either knots in the hair, said to be caused by elves deliberately tangling it during the night, or short springy curls, elf taken is a phrase used to suggest those who are temporarily mad; elf - twisted - is used of a elf who has suffered a stroke. And elf blot is a disease in a farm animals, said to be the result of being shot by elf arrows.

In more recent times, there has been a general diminution of the elves. In Scandinavia they have become associated with the Hulder a small race, with kinship to dwarf's or brownies. They also aired a tradition of being mischievousness and spiteful at times. This just depends on the type of race to the elves.

In Germanic mythology, the forest Elves are called Schrat, while Danish folklore has Elev or Elle - Folk who have an unfriendly relationship with humanity~

Elvhenan was a place where elven language was reportedly at time time where elves were still the dominated race on the continent of Theda's. Elvhenan in ancient times covered all of Thedas and it wasn't an myth that elves were immortal and used magic. Their political, economical, cultural, activities & were in the heart of the city. Elvhenan was one of the greatest cities of its time. During this time there was much peace and harming with the elves of this age. Their homes were glorious ,  & high up in the forest tree tops. They had no war, disease and only peace and beauty of the earth, water , wind  & sky.  Arlathan or Arlath both have the meaning in elfin as ' I love this place'. Arlathan was located in a great forest in the North of Theda's not far from where the 'Tevinter Imberium' first emerged. Elvhenan is the oldest Elves found on record. Some go back before the dragon age.


Before the ages were named or numbers were used, the people were glorious and eternal and forever changing. They worshipped their Gods for months at a time. Decisions came after decades of debate and could last for years from time to time. Their  ancestors would drift into centuries of long slumber but this is not death as we know it. While the ancient elves did not die, the oldest of the elves were said to weary of life, Memories became too much to bear and rather than fade into complacency, they would voluntarily stand aside, and let the younger generation guide their people. This practice was know as Uthenera or 'The long sleep'. Elves would retire to a chamber that was one part bed and one part tomb. It was the Great Ceremony from all  the extended families, the eldest of the different groups of Elves would succumb to a slumber from which they would not wake for centuries and often never. In time the body would deteriorate and the elder would die in truth. All the while the family would continue to visit the chamber to pay respects to the one who made a great sacrifice.

Ancient Elves worshiped Apantheon of Five Gods & Four Goddesses. Their Mythology also mentions another set of Gods called the 'Forgotten Ones,' the enemies of the Elfin pantheon, only 'Fen' Harel'. The trickster God of the Elven pantheon, was able to walk freely between both groups Elves&Gods..

Elvhenans fall can probably be dated to the crowning of the First Archon of the Tevinter Emporiums nearly six & a  half millemnian later...           

And What is a Hobbit-2013

'And What is Hobbit'  
Most people don't know about the Hobbit. There are these little people, smaller than
dwarfs. They love peace and quiet and good tilled earth. Hobbits dislike machines, but
are handy with homemade tools. They are a nibble but don't like to hurry. Hobbits have sharp little ears and eyes. They are inclined to be fat. And love to ware bright colored clothes. As for 
shoes - well that's a different story. They seldom or never ware shoes & there is a good reason
for this... The hobbit has rather large feet and on the bottom of their feet is  very thick and leathery.
On the top is  thick curly hair to keep them warm during the very cold weathers. Their feet is actually a trade mark of the Hobbit. Another thing that they love to do is laugh and eat at least 7 to 8 meals a day. If I remember they would have at least 2 - 3 different breakfast's to start a couple snacks before lunch. and after lunch there was a couple of more snacks and maybe  3 dinners. I can't remember if there is desert. Another  part of there dinning is their drink which they make their own. It was a special Ale of their own. Which they drank alot of it. The Hobbit loved to have party's and  celebration's. Their land is called the Shire, a place between the river of brandy wine and the far downs.

The hobbit was created by J.R.R.  TOLKIEN. But the hobbit is also a real creature in the world of the 
Eleven Realm too. Just like the faeries, elves, tree spirits, mermaids, Selkie's, pixie's, sirens & dragons 
and other creatures of different parallel worlds - port holes & different realms here on this earth. I feel that the hobbits lived in the same time frame as the Elves, faeries,pixie's, tree spirits , water spirits & more...

Some still live here on earth in deep un-touched forest places like - Ireland - Scotland and parts of England.
But others come from different dimensions or other parallel worlds which there are still able to pass  through from their world to ours...

I love the book that J.RR. TOLKIEN wrote about the hobbit because he has a true feeling of these creatures when they would roam the earth before the humans were in great numbers or even before the humans were here on earth. TOLKIEN gave a real picture of how we humans interacted with both the hobbits - elves - dwarfs and the wizards. He gave a true picture in your mind as you read his book - what it might have been like to be with the -  HOBBITS.
He gives you a story about a beloved character  named Bilbo Baggies & lets you follow his adventures throughout the book. Its show how he goes on a quest for the one ring and how it is brought back to the Shire &  to the next generations of his family to continue the story of the RING....
WITH FRODO - BILBO BAGGIES GREAT NEPHEW...

TOLKIEN - Also wrote 3 continues books  called -  The Lord of the Rings;The fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers,  & The Return of the King.

I have always love the Hobbit as a child and now as an adult even more. I fine that I understand it more. Its wonderful that the author wrote these wonderful books to show that  there is true fantasy in the world today - You just have to open your eyes and believe!   Wendy