Ponderings from the Porch Swing

A pretty sunny day ringing with songbird symphonies and soft wind chime melodies is getting ready to say hello to the mystical twilight, the soft magical mist of daylight beginning to dim. The sun is slowly rolling down the horizon and her yellow rays are filtering down through the tree branches highlighting the myriad colors…

The day is pictured perfectly as spring, robin’s egg blue sky sketched with fluffy luminous clouds. Wish I could record the bird symphony today. So loud and so melodious. Sounds like happiness. Claude Monet said, “I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” That’s my yard today, full of spring’s colorful songbirds chirping…

Today, April 1, April Fools’ Day, is my 70th birthday. I was born on Easter Sunday while the church bells were ringing for Sunday services in Roanoke. April Fools’ Day has been on Easter Sunday only four times since 1900. My grandchildren think it’s so funny that my birthday is on April Fools’ Day. My…

I have spent a whole day bird watching, cloud watching, and sunset watching from my perch in the porch swing. I watched a beautiful spring day awaken with its dark blue sky, warm golden sunshine, and fluffy white clouds. I then watched this glorious day bed down for the night as the sunset of Mother…

As I sat in the swing after supper waiting for the sun to set, I heard the most beautiful train symphony playing out as the train began blowing its horn in busts of short notes, loud and brash, vibrating the air with sound waves. The notes musically echoed softly back up the tracks like two…

Happy 91st birthday to Chief! If he was here with us I’d be frying up oysters for supper and icing a chocolate cake. There would be a birthday basket full of onion bulbs, seed potatoes, and other gardening gifts resting by his place at the dining table. “Let us never know what old age is.…

Forty-five years ago tonight, March 28, 1981, I married Chief standing in front of the fireplace here in our family’s ancestral home. Happy anniversary, Chief! We had forty years together and it wasn’t long enough for me. We used to laugh, talking about celebrating our 50th anniversary. I was 25 and he was 46 when…

This is how I feel today. “Sometimes I just look up, smile and say, ‘I know that was you. Thank you.’” A beautiful child was welcomed into our family this morning, a sweet girl baby joining a darling older brother and sister. This makes five grandchildren for baby brother. I still see my youngest brother…

I sat and pondered in the porch swing today watching the birds, listening to the wind chimes tintinnabulations. The March winds are still blowing. The sky was full of the prettiest clouds, fluffy ones kissed snow white on their crowns with bellies tinted light grey and pale purple. Just watched the skies today, didn’t do…

Today was so pretty, blue sky, white fluffy clouds but the March winds did blow, all day. I love to hear the wind pushing through the large magnolias on our street, the rushing of the leaves and branches bending with the stiff breeze dropping old brown leaves that chase each other down the street, slapping…