Ponderings from the Porch Swing

Sat in the swing today and gazed on Father Sky’s melted vanilla sky canvas counting all the colors I could pick out — cigar smoke gray, pale purple, baby blue, charcoal, silver — all gathered together to hide the sun’s shine. I looked in Father Sky’s box of pastels he used to color the clouds…

Was searching for bird quotes today and came across this quote by P.D. James. “God gives every bird his worm but he doesn’t throw it in the nest!” That is the best! You can take it at face value or dissect it and dig deeper to find the message. God provides the worm, the opportunities…

Blue sky every where I look today, perfect periwinkle sky, clear and sunny. Nothing to mar the blue sky canvas but a few crows and a few buzzards flying around warming their wing feathers in the bright sun. Kinda looks like a spring morning but it’s cold and I can feel the winds’ cool teeth…

Today is beautifully blue, cloudlessly clear, and wondrously windy. Old Man Winter has been huffing and puffing all day. The wind gusts are banging out raucous music making the bamboo forest dance in the cool sunshine, bending and turning, slapping their slender fingers in high fives. The canes are full of male cardinals, their crimson…

Just dropped a macadamia nut cookie on the floor and as it rolled away Penelope and I raced after it. I won and yes I ate it. My youngest son was laughing saying, “I’m watching my elderly mother race a dog for a cookie on the floor. Sad.” He enjoys my elderly escapades and calls…

Enjoyed a bagel breakfast today while I sat in the porch swing under an aqua white sky. The day is warm but the swift breeze that runs across my porch is banging the wind chimes as it briefly passes by. Our neighborhood handsome hawk is calling its mate but it’s off key with the wind…

Ate my breakfast perched in the porch swing this morning as the organ wind chimes’ tintinnabulations and songbird symphonies sang hymns of praise for a beautiful morning. Today was a peek at spring but Old Man Winter is still grouchy, bringing back the nighttime twenties with his frosty breath this weekend. Father Sky sketched a…

Spent the day in LaGrange with oldest sister-in-law, getting a hair cut and grocery shopping at Kroger. I love to go to the larger grocery stores shopping for cheeses and a variety of groceries we don’t have here in Roanoke. So many choices! Was determined to stick to my list but I fell off the…

Dodinsky said, “Today fill your cup of life with sunshine and laughter.” I love this quote and my life has been full of warm sunshine and laughter today. Had a busy morning with errands, lunch with friends, phone call from my bosom budddy, and a glorious rest of the day perched in the porch swing…

Drove home today from Peachtree City under a beautiful clear blue morning sky, sun kissed and cloud free. Spent five glorious days with the grandchildren. Hard to believe Alexander is driving himself and Emerson to high school each day. Those sixteen years passed swiftly. Been sitting in the swing on the porch this afternoon. The…