The singing birds outside my bathroom window were my happiness alarm today. They woke me with their bamboo branch symphony. I am hooked on the word symphony. Never thought about all the sounds in my yard being a symphony but now that’s all I hear. I can’t help relating the sounds to instruments in an…

Beautiful day on the porch. I’m sitting in the swing and pondering. Penelope is taking a siesta in her playpen. God always sends us a pretty day after a stormy day. I love these bright blue skies and cloroxed clouds. My yard is such a pretty shade of green. Took three days to go from…

My southern yard symphony is playing again today. The wind is wrestling the leaves about. The wind chimes are not blowing in the wind, just quietly tingling in time with the drip, drip, drip of the rain gutters. The drips are the drum beats of the symphony. When my trash can blows over it’s like…

Sat on the porch swing this morning and ate my breakfast of Tastykake powdered donuts. Love these donuts ‘cause FOUR of them are considered one serving, so you don’t have to feel piggish when you eat four of them. Oldest sister-in-law had invited me to go thrifting so I had to forgo my bagel and…

Ate my breakfast in the swing again today. Only saw cardinals and doves and chickadees on the feeders. A tiny downy woodpecker spent time on the suet feeder. It was a female. She was dressed in her black and white checked tuxedo. She breakfasted on a suet feeder. She’s a beautiful little girl. Her boyfriend…

Beautiful day today. Saw the winter blue sky as I ate breakfast on the porch. Two turkey vultures were riding the wind. As the day progressed the sky got lighter and the pulled cotton boll clouds drifted by. The clouds look just like wisps of cotton that have been pulled from the cotton boll bracts.…

Last night I woke up to go to the bathroom at 2:30 AM and I heard the most beautiful singing from a bird perched in the bamboo forest in the backyard. I had the bathroom window open a few inches so I opened the window all the way so I could enjoy the singing while…

Beautiful porch swing day! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the wood thrush is bathing in the bird bath. All is well with my little world. Nature is bringing me peace today. That wood thrush is a thorough bather. His mother won’t have to check under his armpits. He almost splashed all the…

Sat on the porch this morning in the dreary drizzle and I heard a symphony of nature’s creation. Started listening to three distinct rain drips drumming out a pattern that mixed perfectly with a soft ringing of the wind chimes. As I relaxed and marveled at the symphony, two neighbors’ trash cart lids slammed down…

Started my day out in the swing on the porch this morning. Ate my bagel and cantaloupe watching the birds on the feeders. Dreary, depressing, cloudy day. Went for a walk with Penelope and watched a few squirrels running their circle laps around a big oak tree trunk. Ever watched squirrels run like this? They…