Above the Stump

I was so touched by the comments I received about the tree bear (below) that I went back and retrieved this great, wild bird, which was sitting above a stump nearby, in that same park in Vancouver, beneath that same lovely sky.

Miss Em said the stump might be a character in a woodlands fairytale. I wonder if this bird (so black it reads as blue) might be a character, too? I wonder if the bird might teach the stump to fly, or if the stump might persuade the bird of rootedness?