"Tom-boy"

Stealth!

 

Granddad sat on the back porch swing watching the drama unfold:

 

Busy in the Master’s flower bed consciously focused on its

destiny prescribed by nature at birth, the innocence flittered

back and forth among the fragrant honey sugar-sweet Nectar!

 

A clumsy stalking approach by a shadowy, smallish figurine

who errantly considered the pursuit clandestinely-secret and

well-executed, did not escape the laborer’s alert attentions.

 

Emerald green manicured paths among the verdant color palette

served as an attractive beacon of its very own precise merit; but,

that iridescent collage diligent among the rainbow-flavored blooms

tempted and cajoled bright eyes to spy upon such celestial scene.

 

Slipping from behind yon purple lilac to secret herself in camouflage

in shadow of its cousin-white, also in fragrant-beauty full bloom, she

believed to be concealed encouraging the advance upon yon color-mound.

 

Variegated tall yellow-green in mottled-pleasance bush-grass became the

stalker screening-secret next hiding nexus-place taking the curious urchin

ever-close to the fluttering exhibit-radiance busy at the color flower-bar.

 

 Just one more carefully timed move, Quick! Behind the wide trunk of

yonder ancient silver maple tree Grandfather has planted as a seed some

fifty-plus eons ago when he, himself, was just a novice gardener-sprout.

 

On bare knees, now, further, on the belly “Ooh! The grass is cool!” to

slither serpent-like keeping low behind the roses red, yellow, white

with fragrance assaulting tiny nostrils fantasizing Granny’s pie dessert.

 

Almost there! Careful, now. Slowly move the “weapon” up so a focused-

eye might catch the instant scene-of-beauty supreme upon the garden pure

symmetrical-patterned wings spread wide in embrace of sweet “honey”-kiss.

 

“Click!” whispered the camera concealed wraith-like within the twisted-gnarly

maze of stems and reeds to capture bright and true the vista sunlight high noon

stark display of butterfly-upon-yon-rose by Granddad’s precious little girl-delight.

 

“Thank Thee!” For each and every perfect nature beauty-gift in Life-Love!

Amen!