I think I’ve used this quote before but it just fits perfectly with today. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom,” Marcel Proust. Today my brothers and I and all our children and grandchildren gathered at baby brother’s house for our annual…

So pretty outside today. I’m perched in the swing pondering under a dark blue sky canvas. I’m thinking of The Rascals’ lyrics to A Beautiful Morning. “It’s a beautiful morning, ah I think I’ll go outside for a while and just smile. Just take in some clean fresh air, boy (ain’t) no sense in staying…

Another peaceful and quiet morning. The birds are singing thanks, enjoying all the fresh sunflowers seeds in the feeders. A large pileated woodpecker is drumming on the old oak tree across the street, his staccato beat loud and clear. Oldest sister-in-law brought me three petit fours from Edgar’s bakery in Birmingham this morning. They are…

It’s so wonderfully quiet on my street this morning. I can hear the leaves rustle when the wind blows. I love mornings like this. The wind chimes are faintly pinging. Even the bird symphony is playing softly. The two squirrels are just sitting still on the water oak limbs. I think the Earth is praying.…

The sky is cornflower blue not a cloud anywhere I can see. I hear the voices of my ancestors this morning on the porch through the tintinnabulations of the wind chimes and the whispers of the cool breezes. I hear my grandmother coming happily home from her honeymoon to the beautiful home her father built…

Today is a beautiful picture book day, boundless blue skies, a few wisps of cotton candy clouds, no gray in their bellies. The sun is beaming down hot and relentless making nature’s green colors look almost fluorescent. Mother Nature added a breeze to the mix so I could sit comfortably in the porch swing and…

I watched my granddaughter get on the school bus this morning, watched the grandboys drive off to school in their red golf cart, watched their mother motor off to her work, and I followed behind them driving home from Georgia on an early morning under an overcast sky. I could catch glimpses of Father Sky’s…

This Sunday morning was stormy, raining and thundering and lightning, but in our family the sun was gloriously shining in the All Saints Anglican Church in Peachtree City, Georgia as my youngest grandson was confirmed in the church by Archbishop Foley Beach. I’m so proud of Emerson. He’s such a sweet loving boy. I know…

Visiting my grandchildren so using my archives tonight… Sat in the swing this morning watching the birds enjoying the feeders and the bird baths. The sky was a slab of marble, streaked with gray and blue. The wind chimes were softly pinging out a soft lullaby. A touch of fall was in the air that…

Today’s a hot one. Enjoyed the porch today with the breeze keeping it cool, pinging the wind chimes softly. The wind chimes’ notes were muted by the songbirds. The fighting finches and their fighting fledglings are drowning out the songbird symphony. It’s a beautiful day, the sun is bright and hot, the sky is beautifully…