Feathers in the mild and mellow light of the sunset

"When [feathered] wings are glistening in the beam
Of the low sun, and mountain-tops are bright,
Oh, let me, by the [Lachlan] valley-stream,
Wander amid the mild and mellow light;
And while the redbreast pipes his evening lay,
Give me one lonely hour to hymn the setting day."
 
My favourite time at the farm, when all the eggs are collected, and the evening light is golden on the feathered birds, and it’s time to look up at the sunset, for one lonely hour, and just breathe.
 
#sunset #hues #sunrays #feathers #glisten #mellowlight #pastured #eggs #farmlife #chickens #sundown #attheendoftheday #lonelyhour
 
--from the poem "A Walk at Sunset" by William Cullen Bryant
 
Photography by Paula