I'm so Lonesome...I could Cry....

I noticed... today...something...hanging...just outside...the Birdhouse...Peg had made me...so many years ago... Sparrows...had nested there....to start a family...before I left for Gold Rush....

It was the Mama...They had built a nest... with string...and she had gotten...caught in it....and had died....

My Heart...was broken....

I had John cut her down....

and I buried her...

The Male...sat on the bird house...all day...calling for her...

It broke my heart...

I took this image...as Polly and I walked to the Rabbit Hole....

I watched throughout the day...Other Sparrows....attempted to console him...but.....he wouldn't leave the House...kept peeking inside.....and calling for her...

I climbed up...on a ladder...to see if there were Babies....

I didn't see any....

I would have traded....Everything....over the weekend...to have been here....and save her....

a Heart Break....

{ I heard...his cry...over all of the other birds....today...and that's what drew me to this house....Somehow...it was different.... I knew...something was wrong....I had to get close...to see her.... I wanted to...weep...and did...a...Heart Break...}

There are those...who will say..."It's Just a Sparrow"....

yes...and we... are just...humans...

and...I know Heart Break...

and...so does...a Sparrow...