Ponderings from the Porch Swing

I sit on the porch religiously every night around 7 o’clock, watching Mother Nature paint a magnificent sunset with here watercolors, searching for the words to accurately describe the glorious colors of her watercolors. Today she hid her painting of sunset behind a cover of vanilla clouds but I know it was beautiful by the…

Sat in the porch swing this morning eating my bagel and fruit. The morning was perfect for porch swing perching — eighty degrees with an overcast sky the color of melted vanilla ice cream swirled with blueberry syrup, songbirds all over the feeders chirping their morning symphonies, squirrels playing tag around the old water oak…

I found this quote today on a scrap of paper on my desk, “That was her magic — she could still see the sunset, even on the darkest days,” Atticus Poetry. I think that sentence would be a wonderful compliment. My dearest friend can always find the sunset, she has magic to find light in…

Just heard a mournful freight train whistle. The train is rocking and squeaking down the track, it’s whistle echoing in the humid, thick sultry southern air. Trains horns always sound sad to me, when they bellow in lone wales. The older steam engine trains, happily chugging down the rails, had a happy cheerful train whistle.…

As I sat in the swing this morning I would look up at the dark blue sky and the crisp white clouds and hear Louis Armstrong singing his signature, What a Wonderful World. I love the second stanza — “I see skies of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day, the dark sacred…

One of my blogging friends has a God given talent with nature photography. He captured a magnificent sunrise, beautifully rendered by God and Mother Nature’s paint brushes, a wondrous watercolor divinely painted, it’s composition beautiful enough to grace the walls of an art museum. Several years ago he photographed this river’s sunrise at the perfect…

The Earth was so beautifully silent and still today. Every time I walked on the front porch I was embraced by the sun’s warmth and serenaded by the songbirds’ symphonies. I was reminded of the Bible verse that reads, “Be still, and know that I am God,” Psalm 46:10. Never pondered on this verse even…

Been thinking of funny incidents that have happened to me throughout the years. I’ve been sitting in my reading chair laughing the afternoon away. When Chief and I came back from our honeymoon we went to church together for the first time. I was attending the Presbyterian Church in Alexander City and sang in their…

The sunrise has kissed another wonderful summer day awake with blue sky, bright white clouds, and hot sunshine. Oldest brother and I are enjoying the birds from our porch perches. We are jealous of dearest friend seeing a Baltimore oriole on one of her bird feeders this morning. The cardinals are quietly eating breakfast on…

“When you see that sunset or that panoramic view of God’s finest expressed in nature, and the beauty just takes your breath away, remember it is just a glimpse of the real thing that awaits you in heaven,” Greg Laurie. My niece sent me photos tonight of a gloriously colored sunset at her home, captured…