Today is so pretty, cloudless blue sky, quiet cool breezes reminding me fall is coming but warm sunshine still speaks in summer’s heat. I was walking Penelope and I glanced over at this beautiful little dandelion growing beside the broken sidewalk next door. This pretty little weed, bravely standing tall in a freshly mown lawn,…

Been sitting in the swing this morning listening to the songbirds’ symphonies and thinking about how fast life goes by. I think life is like a rollercoaster ride, up and down, twisting and turning as we journey quickly through time. Good days are rays of sunshine and full of laughter, then life takes a sharp…

The twilight is so beautiful tonight, quiet and cool. The cardinals are eating a late supper, a lone dove perched in her pink high heels on the edge of the birdbath is drinking water. Mother Nature is mixing her watercolors getting ready to paint a magnificent rendering of the day’s demise. The sun walked down…

I love the word blessings. I like how it sounds as it rolls off my tongue. I like the pictures it bring to my mind when I think of all the good fortune in my life. And I love the hymn Count Your Blessings. The chorus reads, “Count your blessings, name them one by one;…

Friday night football is so special in American small towns. My family is gathered tonight to watch my nephew Ben play for Heard County High School in Franklin, Ga., where Ben is a senior. His dad is one of the football coaches, his mother a cheerleader coach. My oldest son and his family are coming…

Ran across a two deck box of my mother’s bird pattern playing cards today. I love them. The grandchildren and I often play cards. I gave my granddaughter Handley a two deck box of Mama’s bridge cards in a roses pattern. Those are our Go Fishing playing cards. One deck is trimmed in gold, the…

Another glorious day the Lord has made. The blue heavens are covered in bird feather clouds, so pretty as I watched them form and change shapes, some stretching out like angel wings. I walked Penelope down the broken sidewalk next door taking photos of the day’s prizes I saw — the huge dinosaur foot of…

The morning sky is so pretty, cool and pleasant. All the wind chimes are singing different songs pinging all their tubular notes loudly, happily. I love the symphony. I think Penelope wishes the symphony would stop. Father Sky opened his pastels and after coloring the sky cerulean blue, dragged his white pastel all over the…

This morning feels like a lover’s kiss of fall, cool and breezy, the sky a deep dark blue. The songbirds are singing, grateful for this gorgeous morning. The wind chimes are pinging a symphony of summer soon ending. Penelope is frisky, pulling me along, enjoying the fresh air, making me careful on the broken sidewalk…

Today was such a beautiful day with its blue sky, clear bright sunshine, white fluffy clouds. As John Donne writes, “Yesterday the sun went hence, and yet it is here today.” This morning made me think of the summertime days of my childhood, running through the house, screen door slamming behind me as my bare…