Truman Capote captured my day perfectly today. “A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.” I’ve enjoyed the blessings today of the green earth with warm sunshine and soft breezes. The birds are singing loudly, so happy this morning. No sounds in the yard except the bird symphony. These are my favorite moments as the world stretches and comes alive. I’d love to travel out west to the Montana prairie and watch and feel the earth waking with the sun rising over the jagged peaks of the mountains in the distance.

My world is so quiet here as I sit in the swing and eat my bagel. The bird feeders are full of cardinals. I’ve never seen so many birds visit the bird bath to drink. The fighting finches just arrived. Their raucous fighting always starts a new movement in the bird symphony. It disturbs the peace for a while till they settle down. Don’t know how they can clean a feeder out so quickly. I don’t know how they can eat when they are constantly fighting each other for the perches.

I read this quote by Waldo Ralph Emerson today and I love it. He wrote, “The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” Mother Nature begins the day waking the earth with golden fingers of sunshine and puts the day to bed with a glorious sunset saturated in rosy hues. Most of us sleep through sunrise and most of us have come in the house for the night when the sun sets but that doesn’t stop Mother Nature from painting the skies with color. I thinks she’s painting for Mother Earth and God, giving them a glorious morning and evening gift.

I picked my first tomatoes today and gathered the squash and cucumbers. Something had taken a few bites from one of the cucumbers. Better have not been that dagnabbit raccoon. My one cantaloupe has finally begun blooming. I had a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich for lunch with cucumbers and cantaloupe. Delicious with that tomato right off the vine. I had squash and corn and cucumbers for supper. The squash was delicious cooked straight from the vine to the frying pan. It’s really amazing to plant little vegetables in big pots and reap the rewards with little caretaking. I put pine straw around the plants, give them a big dose of Miracle Grow once a week, water when needed, spray for the occasional bugs, praise them for their produce, and then let God and Mother Nature do their magic.

Been thinking about God’s bounty, the abundant blessings of nature, both tangible and spiritual, he freely gives us. John 1:16 reads, “We all live off his generous bounty, gift after gift after gift.” I think all the good things in our lives are gifts from a loving God. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights,” James 1:17. Psalm 65:9-11 speaks of God’s bounty in creation. “You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain. You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops. You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.”

God is a loving father and takes joy in watching us thrive. He gives us rain and sunshine. He fills our hearts with peace. He gives us grace when we stray from his teachings. When we put our trust in God there is no need to worry about tomorrow.

“Just soak in His bountiful blessings, and what it will cause is a singing in your soul.” — Author Unknown