Hummers Take Flight: The hummingbirds that winter in Florida have flown north for the summer’s zinnias. The base of this stained piece is glass, painted with acrylic used a fluid technique. Parts of the layered glass mosaic are fused. For Sale at $75.00
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2023
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2023 “In Flight” For Sale
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2023 “In Flight” For Sale
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2023 “In Flight” For Sale
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021 “Hummer Pinked Out” $75
Fall came early this morning to the Treasure Coast—70 degrees! The woodpeckers are a bit livelier, their ruby heads hammering palms in search of insects. The Egyptian geese are squawking at park’s pond—they are new arrivals to the neighborhood.
The hummers haven’t yet arrived though. We’re watching. The neighbors typically gather under a pink-bloomed orchid tree watching the little birds flit about in pairs. Today, though fully leaved, the orchid tree has only one bloom. The first sign. Yet even the butterflies have shied away.
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021
Kelly Jadon, 2021 “Hummer Pinked Out” $75
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021 “Blue Hummer” SOLD
the high place
inside limbs
above boughs
shrouded by leaves
leaves her with a new view
viewing what is
hidden behind leaves hiding
camouflage
hummer’s hues
the high place
inside limbs
above boughs
shrouded by leaves
leaves her hidden
hiding herself
camouflaged
blond hair
green eyes
barefoot & sunkissed brown
the view from high up
up high where
michigan green-crabbed apples grew
into her hand
a few
flew
as if falling far
at passersby below
pedestrians on beaten dirt
made smooth
a summer’s pastime
time passing
day by sun-kissed day
so brief
the view
inside limbs
above boughs
shrouded by leaves
the high place
“Blue Hummer” $75.00
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021
(C) Kelly Jadon, “Hummers” 2021, $70—No Longer Available
Today my daughter texted a photo to our family. There’s a new life preparing to be born! In that secret place, the baby is being knit together. It’s amazing what ultrasound technology reveals.
Life is precious. Life is brief. Like that of grass—it is green, ages and then is cut and returns to the earth. The life of a hummingbird is brief as well—between five and nine years, depending on the type. The majority don’t make it past one year.
Enjoy the flowers, the birds, the beauty of the earth while it is before you!
(C) Kelly Jadon, “Hummers” 2021, $70—No Longer Available
(C) Kelly Jadon, “Hummers Delight” 2021 $2,000
(C) Kelly Jadon “Hummers in Flight” 2021 $1800
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021 From “Hummer in Flight”
Life Lifts
life lifts and flits wings on air
elsewhere
where royal rose’s hues rejoice
petal lips turned back
stigma brimming
wide, waiting, a wonder
life lifts and flits words
elsewhere
where royal golden crowns thrown down
before peace shod, two-holed feet
words pointed heavenward
on rosy lips
wide, waiting, in wonder
(C) Kelly Jadon, “Hummer in Flight” 2021, $1800
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021, “Sylph” from “Hummer in Flight”
The Sylph
slender sylph picks and preens
himself
as if preparing for a selfie
his deep dark turquoise vert greens
languishing from crown
along the length of a heavy-forked tail
wings lifted, opening out
he lives
though not for himself
but for the one love
he calls to
for her
he sings
for her
he whizzes
his tail
as a comet
breaking loose night’s still sky
"Hummer in Flight” 2021, Kelly Jadon $1800
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021
(C) Kelly Jadon 2021, “Hummer Hanger” $125; No longer available
Stained glass originated in ancient Egypt, Rome and Syria. The Egyptians created glass beads around 2700 BC. Wealthier Romans inserted the first stained glass windows. And the Phoenicians manufactured glass in Sidon, Antioch, and Tyre. Today, the Syrians remain famous as glass blowers and beach makers.
For the last 1,000 years, stained glass windows have been seen as those installed in churches and cathedrals. These windows were not for worship purposes themselves, but told the pictorial story of Jesus to illiterate attenders.
My own first attraction began as a child attending services at the Goodrich United Methodist Church in Michigan. Sadly, the building no longer stands.
Churches have favored stained glass windows as a religious form because the light coming through the glass illuminating the Biblical story is symbolic of the light of Scripture. It is a physical symbol of a spiritual concept.
The windows are often ornate and vibrantly colored, demonstrating the variety and beauty of the Christian faith.
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021 “Hummer Hanger” $125
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021
(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021 from “Hummers Delight”
September’s strange winds, dimming days, falling flowers
signal
migration
each solitary hummer born bird
wings over water
catching tail winds, skimming tree tops
a simple New World snowbird
dares mountain peaks turned southward
returning to winter’s roost
orchid and silk trees
emboldened by rosy blooms
transplants of Asia firmly rooted to sandy soil
twittering upon full-leafed boughs
until heat’s humidity hails
the signal
to lift limbs
solitarily
wing its way northward
skimming tree tops
catching tail winds
over waters
past mountain peaks
and begin again
(C) Kelly Jadon, An Ekphrastic Poem for “Hummers Delight”
(C) Kelly Jadon 2021, The Blessing Box “Hummers Delight”
feathers shimmer hues
feasting dives deep in flowers
framed by sun’s fierce rays
—an Ekphrastic Haiku, from The Blessing Box, 2021 “Hummers Delight”
(C) KELLY JADON 2025
