The bird song without a bird

A very beautiful bright blue bird sat on a high tree branch and started to sing: ti-tiri-ti-ti-ti-ti! The lovely song was so light that a passing puff of wind carried it far far away.

The song made friends with the wind and went with him to endless places, always surprising everyone around, who would hear the song, but never see the bird.

After travelling so much though, the song started feeling strange, being a bird song without a bird. What did it look like?, it wondered. Did it look like the wind? But it couldn’t see the wind! And it couldn’t see any of the songs it could hear, either!

The song got very puzzled indeed, so it decided to say good bye to the wind and rest to meditate, floating near a tree. What it then saw just below itself was a large puddle, which reflected everything above it. For a moment, the song imagined that maybe this was what it looked like: a blue sky with some scattered soft clouds.

However, in no time, more and more clouds gathered together, becoming darker and darker, and soon it started to rain, washing the song into the pudlle. This caught the song by surprise, but then it enjoyed now having a body in the shape of big transparent drops. It had good fun splashing into the water! This was how this bird song changed into rain music.

Illustrated by Thereza Rowe

The illustrator, by herself:

I’m Thereza, the little red fox behind TinyRed design. I am currently doing a degree in Graphic Design at the University of Westminster in London. My real passion is illustration and image making of all kinds. I love visual communication and all the play involved and would describe my artwork as whimsical with a human touch. well, something like that…