One of my birds left this unique display on my white fence the other day (above left). Based on the color and time of year, I’m presuming the bird recently made a feast of my ripening elderberries.

I resigned myself a while ago to the idea that I may never harvest any of the fruit off my elderberry. It’s still a pretty bush and in addition to providing bird food it is beneficial for a wide variety of pollinators (at least two dozen species of butterflies and moths are known to use it as a host plant).

A couple days later, my friend Alyssa and I spotted this gorgeous hummingbird mural while attending an outdoor performance by the Florida Orchestra. Something about the color palette seemed oddly familiar, so I zoomed in (see above right).

Which makes me wonder, if I plant a variety of different colored berries, will I’ll end up with a masterpiece on my fence?