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.