Introducing the Mourning Dove Sisters

The Mourning Dove Sisters...

Since you know your way around now, how would you like to meet some of the citizens of 3070? 



Breakfast in Sunflower Park, look closely!



Let's start then with the descendants of Gerheart the Great, the birds of 3070.  There are many families of birds who chirp and fly around these parts.    Sara Dippity has a hard time telling them apart unless they are all together in a row.  Then she will exclaim to Dean or Donny or whomever,  "Look there are actually 5 mourning doves!"

Speaking of which, let us start with the Dove Family.  There are five dove sisters who coo and cluck around Bird's Corner.  They do not mind so much when we say that they coo.  However, they are quite affronted at the accusation that they cluck.  Their names are Yolanda Margaret, Goldie Olga, Emma Lillian, Elizabeth and Elsie.  Elsie is the youngest and the loudest clucker by the way.  She says she is not clucking, she is giggling. 

The Dove sisters are all lovely and elegant and prefer to wait quietly in the Sunflower Park (we haven't yet visited Sunflower Park?  Please remind us later to point it out.)  Anyway, Yolanda, Goldie, Emma, Elizabeth and Elsie glide gently to Sunflower Park which is just northwest of Chipmunk Avenue.  Oh dear, that doesn't help much, does it?  Never mind.  In the early mornings even before the King's shadow falls, the sisters can be heard in the distance gently calling to one another..."Come Sisters, come and have breakfast!" And one by one they come on wide blue gray wings to sit on the fence watching the common birds (for that is what they call them,) madly flitting about and knocking birdseed right down onto Sunflower Park.  Once a good deal of seed has landed among the cool shadows of the park, the ladies simply land and nibble daintily.  Not for them is the silliness of hanging from a tiny perch grabbing at their breakfast.  After breakfast, they take a little walk around Bird's Corner taking in the sights and greeting their friends.  The chipmunks often report that the sisters do indeed cluck as they pass saying, "You chipmunks must start giving your avenues different names, for goodness sake!" They even give a pleasant "hello" to the common birds because, after all, they are the ones who delivered them their breakfast.



Walking through Bird's Corner after breakfast.



As the King's shadow falls, the sisters join in harmony to greet him and it's said that they are singing the old human song, "On the wings of the snow white dove; He sends his pure sweet love..." They are not snow white doves but the King tells of their ancestor who brought the presence of the Holy Spirit in the days when Jesus walked among men.  So they sing to the King as he walks again in the cool mornings to tell him he is welcome here in 3070.

The Landmarks of 3070

Good morning and welcome back to 3070!  We are so glad to see you.  It seems that you might be visiting with us on occassion so perhaps you would like a tour of the major landmarks of 3070?  Well, come along, there's much to see and do...

Squirrel Highway



Chipmunk Avenue





Squirrel Highway, rest stop




 

Bird's Corner





The Lake in the Wild-er-ness

The Wild-er-ness

Chipmunk Avenue

The Statue of Remembering in Geheart's Blue Lake

The Bubbling Lake

The Town Square



Man's Perch (aka The Back Porch)




We hope we didn't move too quickly.  You'll find your way easily enough, despite the chipmunks and all of their avenues with the same name.
You can stop anywhere alone the tour to rest and relax for a moment.  The rest stops along Squirrel Highway are a bit difficult to reach for the child-wren of Man Robert, but to each his own.  He's got a nice little spot on Man's Perch that is known locally as The Back Porch.  It's most always pleasant there.
We especially recommend taking extra time in the King's shadow.  

Welcome to 3070

Welcome to the land of Three Thousand Seventy.  For short, we will say 3070.  It is a very not interesting name and we wish it was something more poetic sounding like Birdsong Acres or Evergreen Pond.   The problem is that we do not have acres or a pond and when we got here, this was the name of the place.   We do not know why this land is called 3070.  We asked around in the lands of 3060 and 3080 and they could not explain it either, they are equally confused at the names of their lands. 

Ah well, it's a very nice place anyhow.  Although we do not have acres or a pond, we have three lakes (Lake in the Wild-er-ness, The Bubbling Lake and Gerheart's Blue Lake), The Wild-er-ness, The Squirrel Highway (which travels to all of the other lands around us), Bird's Corner, Chipmunk Avenues (all of the avenues have the same name, chipmunks are not good namers) and the Town Square.  There is the Giant Castle and Man's Perch as well. There you have it and welcome to our home. 






The Statue of Remembering





This is our Statue of Remembering.  It is a statue of Gerheart The Great and as you can see, it is in the middle of Gerheart's Blue Lake.  What was so great about Gerheart?  Many years ago, Gerheart said to us all, "I am great!  Savvy me?"  And we did not want to hurt his feelings and so we said, "Yup!"  Gerheart the Great was born on a Farm a long long way away from 3070.  He wanted to have some adventures so he flew to the City and to the Cottage and to the Town and to The Farm (which was another farm altogether.)  Then he flew to 3070 because he was getting to be tired from all of his flying and this is where he stayed.  When he came to 3070, he met Man Robert the First.  Man Robert the First was quite nice only he tried to tell Gerheart that his name was Man Robert the Great.  Gerheart never heard of such boastful nonsense so he nodded politely but in his heart, he only ever thought of his friend as Man Robert the First. 

Man Robert the First was a good neighbor.  He went about planting petunias and hanging restaurants in the trees which he called "bird feeders."  Remembering the days as a farm bird when Gerheart had to go plucking about for his dinner, he very happy about Man Robert's bird feeders and sent the word to his friends that 3070 was a great land indeed. 



The King's Shadow falling across the Wilder-er-ness



And so Gerheart the Great and Man Robert the First spent many happy days in 3070.  In the early mornings Man Robert would sit with a cup of coffee upon the Man's Perch while Gerheart nibbled on his breakfast and in the sweet quiet mornings, they would wait until the King's shadow fell across the land.  You see, the King is the one who really owns 3070 as well as all of the surrounding lands.  He is kind and gentle and if you sit quietly in the mornings, his shadow will still fall across the Wild-er-ness and then across the Town Square.  You can go and stand in his shadow if you like, and you will feel warm and calm and good. 

Gerheart the Great and Man Robert the First and the King would meet every morning and together, 3070 became an ever better land.  Gerheart the Great flew away one day and now we only have his Statue of Remembering.  Man Robert the First went to sleep, his statue of remembering is in a nearby land, where all of the men's statues are kept.  But that does not mean they do not spend the mornings in the King's shadow anymore!  Oh no!  They moved away to the King's Great Meadow!  It is even lovelier than 3070 in the King's Great Meadow and the King's shadow warms them night and day. 

But the land of 3070 is still quite busy with the children of Gerheart the Great and all of their neighbors flying and running and squawking and chirping.  Man Robert the First's grand-child-wren (who never seemed to grow wings but Gerheart didn't want to embarrass his friend by mentioning it) and great-grand-child-wren (who still didn't have any wings but by this time, even Gerheart the Great had to admit the that great-grand-child-wren were quite nice) still live in 3070.  Man Robert and Gerheart like to peek over the edge of the King's Great Meadow to watch the happy times of the child-wren and their child-wren and their child-wren.

For there are still many happy times in the King's shadow.